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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.

Construction of Cosmology - http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html
Article by Helge Kragh discussing when and how 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://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.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.

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.

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