Web Directory

» A Brief History of Cosmology
   A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
   http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html

» As the World Turned
   History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
   http://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/renaissance.astro/0.intro.html

» Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis
   Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
   http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html

» Construction of Cosmology
   Article by Helge Kragh discussing when and how cosmology became a science.
   http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html

» Cosmology since 1900
   A timeline with links.
   http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html

» History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology
   Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
   http://www.brera.unimi.it/sisfa/atti/1996/kragh.html

» History of Cosmology
   An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
   http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html

» Inventing the Solar System
   Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
   http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html

» The Copernican Revolution
   Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
   http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html

» The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920
   The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
   http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html

» Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology
   The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
   http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/carroll.htm