Three good books on the history of cosmology—

• Helge Kragh, Conceptions of Cosmos: From Myths to the Accelerating Universe. A History of Cosmology (Oxford, 2007)
• Michael J. Crowe, Modern Theories of the Universe from Herschel to Hubble
  (Dover, 1994)
• Michael Hoskin, The Cambridge Concise History of Astronomy
  (Cambridge University Press, 1999)