Worldviews (History)

Worldviews Sites:

Construction of Cosmology Construction of Cosmology: When and how physical cosmology became a science. (Worldviews) http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html A Brief History of Cosmology A Brief History of Cosmology: A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians. (Worldviews) http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology: The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe. (Worldviews) http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/carroll.htm Inventing the Solar System Inventing the Solar System: Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move. (Worldviews) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis: Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler. (Worldviews) http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html The Copernican Revolution The Copernican Revolution: Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity. (Worldviews) http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html World Cosmology Histories World Cosmology Histories: Different world viewpoints on cosmology through history. (Worldviews) http://blueox.uoregon.edu/~karen/astro123/lectures/lec01.html History of Cosmology History of Cosmology: An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. (Worldviews) http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html The Galileo Project - Observing Terrace The Galileo Project - Observing Terrace: Comprehensive and detailed information on the astronomical work of Galileo and his contemporaries, from Rice University. (Worldviews) http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Villa/observatory.html Flat Earth Historical Thinking Flat Earth Historical Thinking: History of the belief that the earth is flat. (Worldviews) http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology: Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references. (Worldviews) http://albinoni.brera.unimi.it/Atti-Como-96/kragh.html The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920: The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae. (Worldviews) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html Cosmology since 1900 Cosmology since 1900: A timeline with links. (Worldviews) http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html