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Construction of Cosmology -- When & how physical cosmology became a science. Visit

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

History of Cosmology -- An over view from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. Visit

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

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

The Copernican Revolution -- A timeline with links. Visit

Cosmology since 1900 -- A timeline with links. Visit

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

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 & lecture notes. Visit

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

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

Inventing the Solar System -- Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move. Visit

The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 -- The 'great debate' about the scale of the universe & the nature of spiral nebulae. Visit

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



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