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Different world viewpoints on cosmology through history.
http://blueox.uoregon.edu/~karen/astro123/lectures/lec01.html
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History of Cosmology
An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
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The Copernican Revolution
Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html
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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.
http://www.jonathanbaker.org/courses/ay9/
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Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis
Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html
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Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology
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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History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology
Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
http://albinoni.brera.unimi.it/Atti-Como-96/kragh.html
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Cosmology since 1900
A timeline with links.
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html
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Cosmology
A timeline from 1576 (infinite universe) to 1980 (inflationary Big Bang).
http://www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/cosmo.html
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Construction of Cosmology
When and how physical cosmology became a science.
http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html
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The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920
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
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Inventing the Solar System
Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html
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The Galileo Project - Observing Terrace
Comprehensive and detailed information on the astronomical work of Galileo and his contemporaries,
from Rice University.
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Villa/observatory.html
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Flat Earth Historical Thinking
History of the belief that the earth is flat.
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html
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The Copernican Revolution
A timeline with links.
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CopernicanRevolution.html
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As the World Turned
History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/readers/renaissance.astro/0.intro.html
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