Worldviews (14)

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http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
A Brief History of Cosmology Open in a new browser window
   A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/renaissance.astro/0.intro.html
As the World Turned Open in a new browser window
   History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
   http://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/renaissance.astro/0.intro.html
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html
Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis Open in a new browser window
   Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
   http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html
http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html
Construction of Cosmology Open in a new browser window
   When and how physical cosmology became a science.
   http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html
Cosmology since 1900 Open in a new browser window
   A timeline with links.
   http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html
Flat Earth Historical Thinking Open in a new browser window
   History of the belief that the earth is flat.
   http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html
http://www.brera.unimi.it/sisfa/atti/1996/kragh.html
History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology Open in a new browser window
   Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
   http://www.brera.unimi.it/sisfa/atti/1996/kragh.html
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
History of Cosmology Open in a new browser window
   An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
   http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html
Inventing the Solar System Open in a new browser window
   Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
   http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html
The Copernican Revolution Open in a new browser window
   Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
   http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html
The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 Open in a new browser window
   The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
   http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html
http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/carroll.htm
Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology Open in a new browser window
   The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
   http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/carroll.htm

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