Worldviews

See also:

• Science: Astronomy: Cosmology  (39)
• Science: Social Sciences: Archaeology: Topics: Archaeoastronomy  (90)
• Society: Philosophy: Philosophy of Science  (290)

As the World Turned - History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others.

A Brief History of Cosmology - A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians..

Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis - Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler..

The Copernican Revolution - A timeline with links..

The Copernican Revolution - Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity..

Cosmology since 1900 - A timeline with links..

Flat Earth Historical Thinking - History of the belief that the earth is flat..

History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology - Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references..

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..

History of Cosmology - An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive..

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..

Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology - The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe..

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