Worldviews History Astronomy
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.
Top: Science: Astronomy: History: Worldviews
See Also:
- Top/Society/Philosophy/Philosophy of Science
- Top/Science/Social Sciences/Archaeology/Topics/Archaeoastronomy
- Top/Science/Astronomy/Cosmology
- Cosmology since 1900 - A timeline with links.
- The Copernican Revolution - Brief historical chronology of the development and acceptance of heliocentricity.
- The Shapley - Curtis Debate in 1920 - The "great debate" about the scale of the worldviews universe and astronomy the nature of spiral nebulae.
- A Brief History of Cosmology - A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, worldviews starting with the Babylonians.
- Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis - Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.
- History and Philosophy of Twentieth Century Cosmology - Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.
- As the World Turned - History of sun-centered astronomy, includes original work of Galileo, Copernicus, others
- Thomas Aquinas and Big Bang Cosmology - The development of theological implications of scientific work astronomy on origin of the universe.
- Inventing the Solar System - Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.
- Flat Earth Historical Thinking - History of the belief that the earth is worldviews flat.
- History of Cosmology - An overview from the MacTutor History of Mathematics astronomy archive.
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