For much of history the cultures of the east, especially China, led the way over the west in technology, such as gun powder, rockets, and mathematics such as the concept of zero. However science and the scientific method took hold in the west, and with it came applied science or technology that has advanced at an exponential rate. With it, so have our ideas of the nature of the universe in which we live, or cosmology. I think so. Before going on, let's define cosmology.
Cosmology is the study of the universe as an ordered system.
Therefore one might thing that astronomy is part of cosmology, are that cosmology is itself part of astronomy. Astronomy, as a science came first, but cosmology as religious concepts predates any science. Thus we see in our day a tension between religion and science with its current ideas of cosmology, and particularly cosmogony, the study of the origin of the universe. Yet, it seems that the ideas from the Hebrew scriptures combined with the world view of the Greek philosophers, that was accepted by the early Christian church, provided fertile ground for the development of scientific advancement that gave rise to our current view of cosmology. The cosmological ideas of the Bible and the Greek philosophers are no longer viable science.