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