A review by David Wands of the development of cosmology, starting with the Babylonians.

A timeline with links.

History of the belief that the earth is flat.

Early Greek scientists struggle to explain how the heavens move.

The "great debate" about the scale of the universe and the nature of spiral nebulae.

When and how physical cosmology became a science.

A timeline with links.

Paper presented at an Italian national conference in 1996, with references.

The development of theological implications of scientific work on origin of the universe.

Religious influences on Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe and Kepler.