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As the World Turned - History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
A Brief History of Cosmology - A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis - Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
The Copernican Revolution - A timeline with links.
The Copernican Revolution - Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
Cosmology since 1900 - A timeline with links.
Flat Earth Historical Thinking - History of the belief that the earth is flat.
History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology - Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
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.
History of Cosmology - An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
Inventing the Solar System - Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 - The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology - The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.