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A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
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History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
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Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
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When and how physical cosmology became a science.
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A timeline with links.
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History of the belief that the earth is flat.
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Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
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An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
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Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
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The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
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The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
