Astronomy: History: Worldviews

A timeline with links.

History of the belief that the earth is flat.

Comprehensive and detailed information on the astronomical work of Galileo and his contemporaries, from Rice University.

Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.

The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.

When and how physical cosmology became a science.

A timeline with links.

Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.

The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.

Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.

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.

Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.

An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.

Different world viewpoints on cosmology through history.