The Copernican Revolution
A timeline with links.
Flat Earth Historical Thinking
History of the belief that the earth is flat.
Inventing the Solar System
Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920
The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
Construction of Cosmology
When and how physical cosmology became a science.
Cosmology since 1900
A timeline with links.
History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology
Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology
The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis
Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
History of Cosmology
A history of our conceptions of the universe from ancient origin myths to the frontiers of modern science. UC Berkeley course syllabus and lecture notes.
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