A Brief History of Cosmology
A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
As the World Turned
History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the H
Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
Construction of Cosmology
When and how physical cosmology became a science.
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 Cosmol
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 Copernican Revolution
A timeline with links.
The Copernican Revolution
Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
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.
World Cosmology Histories
Different world viewpoints on cosmology through history.