Directory of Worldviews Resources

Major changes in the scientific view of the scale or structure of the universe, paradigm shifts.

Resources in This Category

A Brief History of Cosmology

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
As the World Turned

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/renaissance.astro/0.intro.html
History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
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 and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology

http://www.brera.unimi.it/sisfa/atti/1996/kragh.html
Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
History of Cosmology

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html
An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
The Copernican Revolution

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html
Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920

http://apod.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.

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