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1. History of Cosmology
An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html - 17-06-2003 - [detailed information]
Rating: [7.00] Votes: [1337]
  
2. The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920
The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/diamond_jubilee/debate_1920.html - 14-10-2003 - [detailed information]
Rating: [7.00] Votes: [2161]
  
3. Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis
Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html - 02-05-2001 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1985]
  
4. Cosmology since 1900
A timeline with links.
http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html - 06-10-2000 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [216]
  
5. Inventing the Solar System
Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html - 09-04-2003 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [9]
  
6. The Galileo Project - Observing Terrace
Comprehensive and detailed information on the astronomical work of Galileo and his contemporaries, from Rice University.
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Villa/observatory.html - 24-03-2000 - [detailed information]
Rating: [6.00] Votes: [1261]
  
7. As the World Turned
History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/readers/renaissance.astro/0.intro.html - 25-08-2002 - [detailed information]
Rating: [5.00] Votes: [1146]
  
8. Construction of Cosmology
When and how physical cosmology became a science.
http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html - 21-09-2003 - [detailed information]
Rating: [5.00] Votes: [1733]
  
9. Cosmology
A timeline from 1576 (infinite universe) to 1980 (inflationary Big Bang).
http://www.gsu.edu/other/timeline/cosmo.html - 25-06-2001 - [detailed information]
Rating: [5.00] Votes: [2179]
  
10. Flat Earth Historical Thinking
History of the belief that the earth is flat.
http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html - 26-03-2000 - [detailed information]
Rating: [5.00] Votes: [1026]
  

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