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	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.
	Inventing the Solar System - http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Ellen/EarlyGkAstronomy.html Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
	Flat Earth Historical Thinking - http://www.ethicalatheist.com/docs/flat_earth_myth.html History of the belief that the earth is flat.
	The Copernican Revolution - http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CopernicanRevolution.html A timeline with links.
	Cosmology since 1900 - http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/CosmologySince1900.html A timeline with links.

	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.
	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.
	Construction of Cosmology - http://www.nd.edu/~histast4/exhibits/papers/kragh.html Article by Helge Kragh discussing when and how cosmology became a science.
	The Copernican Revolution - http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
	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 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.
	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 of Cosmology - http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Cosmology.html An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
	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

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