Worldviews
Links
The Copernican Revolution
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CopernicanRevolution.html
A timeline with links.
Flat Earth Historical Thinking
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html
History of the belief that the earth is flat.
The Galileo Project - Observing Terrace
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Villa/observatory.html
Comprehensive and detailed information on the astronomical work of Galileo and his contemporaries, from Rice University.
The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html
The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
Construction of Cosmology
http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html
When and how physical cosmology became a science.
Cosmology since 1900
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html
A timeline with links.
Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology
http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/carroll.htm
The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html
Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
History of Cosmology
http://www.jonathanbaker.org/courses/ay9/
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.
The Copernican Revolution
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html
Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
History of Cosmology
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.