📚 Cosmogony

Accounts of how the world began: the mythic catalogues beside the scientific ones.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject cosmogony in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Bibliotheca historica	Diodorus Siculus	1472	61
	Hebrew myths	Robert Graves	1963	30
	The Elegant Universe	Brian Greene	1999	30
	Telluris theoria sacra	Thomas Burnet	1673	28
	The universe around us	James Hopwood Jeans	1929	27
	Allgemeine Naturgeschichte und Theorie des Himmels	Immanuel Kant	1755	20
	The Cosmic Connection	Carl Sagan	1973	19
	The riddle of the universe at the close of the nineteenth century	Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel	1900	18
	Creation and evolution in primitive cosmogonies and other pieces	James George Frazer	1935	14
	Kumulipo	Martha Warren Beckwith	1951	14
	Sacred Theory of the Earth	Thomas Burnet	1965	14
	Discovering the Universe	William J. Kaufmann	2000	13
	The evolution of worlds	Percival Lowell	1909	11
	Legends of Babylon & Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition	Leonard William King	1918	11
	Astronomy and cosmogony	James Hopwood Jeans	1928	11
	Cosmos, chaos, and the world to come	Norman Rufus Colin Cohn	1993	10
	Cosmology and the Early Universe	Pasquale Di Bari	2018	9
	Mars as the abode of life	Percival Lowell	1908	8
	L' hypothèse de l'atome primitif	Georges Lemaître	1946	8
	Aus der Akasha-Chronik	Rudolf Steiner	1959	8
	Biography of the earth	George Gamow	1948	7
	The origin of the earth	W. M. Smart	1951	7
	The first three minutes	Steven Weinberg	1977	7
	Wrinkles in time	George Smoot	1993	7
	God's Equation	Amir D. Aczel	1999	7
	Leçons sur les hypothèses cosmogoniques	Henri Poincaré	1911	6
	Matter, earth, and sky	George Gamow	1958	6
	The 12th Planet	Zecharia Sitchin	1976	6
	The dancing universe	Marcelo Gleiser	1997	6
	Geschichte der Schöpfung	Hermann Burmeister	1845	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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