A Brief History of Cosmology «
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html | | A review by david wands of the development of cosmology , starting with the babylonians. |
As the World Turned «
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/renaissance.astro/0.intro.html | | History of sun-centered astronomy , includes original work of galileo , copernicus , others |
Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis «
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html | | Religious influences on copernicus , galileo , brahe and kepler. |
Construction of Cosmology «
http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html | | When and how physical cosmology became a science. |
Cosmology since 1900 «
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html | | A timeline with links. |
Flat Earth Historical Thinking «
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html | | History of the belief that the earth is flat. |
History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology «
http://albinoni.brera.unimi.it/Atti-Como-96/kragh.html | | Paper presented at an italian national conference in 1996 , with references. |
History of Cosmology «
http://www.jonathanbaker.org/courses/ay9/ | | 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. |
History of Cosmology «
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html | | An overview from the mactutor history of mathematics archive. |
Inventing the Solar System «
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html | | Early greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move. |
The Copernican Revolution «
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CopernicanRevolution.html | | A timeline with links. |
The Copernican Revolution «
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html | | Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity. |
The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 «
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html | | The " great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae. |
Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology «
http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/carroll.htm | | The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe. |
World Cosmology Histories «
http://blueox.uoregon.edu/~karen/astro123/lectures/lec01.html | | Different world viewpoints on cosmology through history. |
