As the World Turned
History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others |
Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis
Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. |
Construction of Cosmology
When and how physical cosmology became a science. |
Cosmology
A timeline from 1576 (infinite universe) to 1980 (inflationary Big Bang). |
Cosmology and Cosmologists
Notes on twentieth century views of the structure of the universe, and the people who formulated them. |
Cosmology since 1900
A timeline with links. |
Flat Earth Historical Thinking
History of the belief that the earth is flat. |
Historical Documents
Annotated excerpts of Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo. |
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. |
Inventing the Solar System
Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move. |
Medieval Cosmology
A short narrative and a collection of links. |
The Copernican Revolution
A timeline with links. |
The Galileo Project - Observing Terrace
Comprehensive and detailed information on the astronomical work of Galileo and his contemporaries, from Rice University. |
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. |
