# Microcosm

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**Microcosm** or **macrocosm**, also spelled **mikrokosmos** or **makrokosmos**, may refer to:

## Philosophy

- [Microcosm–macrocosm analogy](/source/Microcosm%E2%80%93macrocosm_analogy), the view according to which there is a structural similarity between the human being and the cosmos

## Music

- [*Macrocosm* (album)](/source/Macrocosm_(album)), seventh studio album by the German electronic composer Peter Frohmader, released in 1990
- *[Makrokosmos](/source/Makrokosmos)*, a series of four volumes of pieces for piano by American composer George Crumb
- "Mic-rocosm", a song by American rapper Prodigy from the album *[Hegelian Dialectic](/source/Hegelian_Dialectic_(The_Book_of_Revelation))*
- [*Microcosm* (album)](/source/Microcosm_(album)), 2010 album by Flow
- [*Microcosmos* (Drudkh album)](/source/Microcosmos_(Drudkh_album))
- [*Microcosmos* (Thy Catafalque album)](/source/Microcosmos_(Thy_Catafalque_album))
- [*Mikrokosmos* (Bartók)](/source/Mikrokosmos_(Bart%C3%B3k)), a cycle of piano pieces written 1926-1939 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók
- [*Mikrokosmos* (Turovsky)](/source/Mikrokosmos_(Turovsky)), four cycles of lute pieces, *Mikrokosmos I-IV*, by Ukrainian-American composer [Roman Turovsky](/source/Roman_Turovsky)
- *Mikrokosmos*, pseudonym used by former Dark Star frontman [Christian Hayes](/source/Christian_Hayes) for solo material
- *Mikrokosmos*, a 1987 performance choreographed by [Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker](/source/Anne_Teresa_De_Keersmaeker)
- "Mikrokosmos", by BTS from the 2019 album *[Map of the Soul: Persona](/source/Map_of_the_Soul:_Persona)*

## Biology

- [Microcosm (experimental ecosystem)](/source/Microcosm_(experimental_ecosystem)), a small scale contained and controlled ecosystem
- *[Microcosmus](/source/Microcosmus)*, a genus of tunicates

## Literature and publishing

- [Microcosm Publishing](/source/Microcosm_Publishing), an independent publisher and distributor based in Portland, Oregon, and Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.
- *[Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life](/source/Microcosm:_E._coli_and_the_New_Science_of_Life)*, a 2008 book by Carl Zimmer
- *[Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City](/source/Microcosm:_Portrait_of_a_Central_European_City)*, a 2002 book by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse
- *Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology* by [George Gilder](/source/George_Gilder)

## Other uses

- [Macrocosm (Star Trek: Voyager)](/source/Macrocosm_(Star_Trek:_Voyager)), 54th episode of Star Trek: Voyager
- [Microcosm (CERN)](/source/Microcosm_(CERN)), a museum near Geneva, Switzerland
- [Microcosm (clock)](/source/Microcosm_(clock)), a unique clock made by Henry Bridges of Waltham Abbey, England
- [Microcosm (hypermedia system)](/source/Microcosm_(hypermedia_system)), an early hypermedia system that predated the World Wide Web
- [*Microcosm* (video game)](/source/Microcosm_(video_game)), a 1993 shoot-'em-up by Psygnosis
- [Microcosm Ltd](/source/Microcosm_Ltd), a UK software protection company
- [*Microcosmos* (film)](/source/Microcosmos_(film)), a 1996 documentary film
- The Microcosm, a 19th-century microscope gallery and shop on Regent Street, London, run by [Carpenter and Westley](/source/Carpenter_and_Westley)

## See also

- *[Microcosmic God](/source/Microcosmic_God)*, science fiction novelette published in 1941 by American writer Theodore Sturgeon
- [Microcosmic orbit](/source/Microcosmic_orbit), a Taoist Qigong energy cultivation technique
- [Microcosmic salt](/source/Microcosmic_salt), a salt found in urine with the formula Na(NH4)HPO4
- *[Microcosmographia Academica](/source/Microcosmographia_Academica)*, a short pamphlet on university politics written by F. M. Cornford and published in 1908
- *[The Ray of the Microcosm](/source/The_Ray_of_the_Microcosm)*, romanticist poem written in 1845 by Prince-Bishop and Petar II Petrović-Njegoš

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