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- As the World Turned - History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/readers/renaissance.astro/0.intro.html
- Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis - Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html
- Construction of Cosmology - When and how physical cosmology became a science.
www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html
- Cosmology - A timeline from 1576 (infinite universe) to 1980 (inflationary Big Bang).
www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/cosmo.html
- Cosmology and Cosmologists - Notes on twentieth century views of the structure of the universe, and the people who formulated them.
spaceboy.nasda.go.jp/note/Kagaku/E/Kag_e.html
- Cosmology since 1900 - A timeline with links.
www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html
- Flat Earth Historical Thinking - History of the belief that the earth is flat.
www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html
- Historical Documents - Annotated excerpts of Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo.
www.stcloud.msus.edu/~physcrse/astr106/doc.html
- History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology - Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
albinoni.brera.unimi.it/Atti-Como-96/kragh.html
- 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.
www.jonathanbaker.org/courses/ay9
- Inventing the Solar System - Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html
- Medieval Cosmology - A short narrative and a collection of links.
www.knox.edu/fmcandre/cosmology.html
- The Copernican Revolution - A timeline with links.
www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CopernicanRevolution.html
- The Galileo Project - Observing Terrace - Comprehensive and detailed information on the astronomical work of Galileo and his contemporaries, from Rice University.
es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Villa/observatory.html
- The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 - The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html
- Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology - The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/carroll.htm
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