Construction of Cosmology
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When & how physical cosmology became a science.
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Flat Earth Historical Thinking
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History of the belief that the earth is flat.
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History of Cosmology
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An over view from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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As the World Turned
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History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
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Thomas Aquinas & Big Bang Cosmology
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The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
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The Copernican Revolution
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A timeline with links.
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Cosmology since 1900
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A timeline with links.
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A Brief History of Cosmology
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A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
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History of Cosmology
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A history of our conceptions of the universe from ancient origin myths to the frontiers of modern science. UC Berkeley course syllabus & lecture notes.
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The Copernican Revolution
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Brief historical chronology of the development & acceptance of heliocentricity.
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History & Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology
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Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
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Inventing the Solar System
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Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
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The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920
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The 'great debate' about the scale of the universe & the nature of spiral nebulae.
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Christianity & the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis
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Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe & Kepler.
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