Worldviews
Links
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.
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.
World Cosmology Histories
http://blueox.uoregon.edu/~karen/astro123/lectures/lec01.html
Different world viewpoints on cosmology through history.