Worldviews History Astronomy

Worldviews History Astronomy

Worldviews

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

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See Also:

- A timeline with links.
- History of the belief that the earth is flat.
- A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.
- When and how physical cosmology became a science.
- History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
- Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
- The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.
- The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.
- Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
- Different world viewpoints on cosmology through history.
- An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
- Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.

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