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(ecology) A small natural ecosystem an artificial ecosystem set up as an experimental model.

They experienced a microcosm of this within the opening 45 minutes at the Stadium of Light.}} , passage=Steve Bruce's side have swung from highs to lows in what has been at best a wildly inconsistent start to the season. ‘In a sense, the problems experienced at Bristol are like a microcosm of what is happening in the NHS - experienced surgeons battling against difficult circumstances, with inadequate resources and in a culture where the finding of scapegoats appears to be put before the finding of solutions.’

* 1999, Barry McIntyre, The Guardian, :.A smaller system which is seen as representative ( of) a larger one.If you see this in the Map of my Microcosme, followes it that I am knowne well enough too? * ( William Shakespeare),, First Folio 1623, Act 2, Scene 1:.The Christian humanists were emphatic in their demand that a man who wishes to understand himself must realize that he is a little world that reflects on a smaller scale the larger world of the universe.On the other hand, the whole idea of man as a microcosm was questioned by those who were not in sympathy with the Christian humanists. * 1972 ', Rolf Soellner, ''Shakespeare's Patterns of Self-Knowledge'', Chapter 3: '''''Microcosm and Macrocosm: Framing The Picture of Man, page 43:.Human nature or the human body as representative of the wider universe man considered as a miniature counterpart of divine or universal nature.

Synonyms for microcosm