Worldviews
Links
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.
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.
Flat Earth Historical Thinking
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html
History of the belief that the earth is flat.
History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology
http://albinoni.brera.unimi.it/Atti-Como-96/kragh.html
Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
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.
History of Cosmology
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
Inventing the Solar System
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html
Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
The Copernican Revolution
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CopernicanRevolution.html
A timeline with links.
The Copernican Revolution
http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html
Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.