The Greek Worldview

• Who Was Plato?
• Circular Motion Schemes
• Who Was Aristotle?
• Who Was Ptolemy?
• Ptolemy: Scientist or Fraud
• Cosmology and Religion in the Dark Ages

The Start of Scientific Cosmology

• Who Was Copernicus?
• The Discovery of New Moons
• Quote from Galileo:
  "Here we have a fine and elegant argument..."
• Galileo and Theology
• Who Was Tycho Brahe?
• Kepler's Three Laws

The Mechanical Universe

• Newtonian Cosmology and Religion
• Quote from Isaac Newton:
  "Hitherto I have not been..."
• Who Was Edmond Halley?
• Who Were the Herschels?
• Quote from Herschel:
  "...We shall look upon those regions..."

Island Universes

• The Way Astronomers Were Misled
• Quote from Arthur Eddington:
  "It is believed..."
• Who Was Harlow Shapley?
• Who Was George Ellery Hale?
• Women in Astronomy
• Quote from Shapley:
  "The system..."
• Quote from Shapley:
  "The physical universe..."
• Quote from Shapley:
  "From the new..."
• The Great Debate Over the Size of the Universe
• Who Was Edwin Hubble?
• The way Hubble discovered to classify nebulae
• Bad science and the evidence against Spiral Nebulae as island universes

The Expanding Universe

• How Old is the Universe?
• How Hubble found distances
• Why Hubble's distances later had to be doubled
• Hubble's campaign to establish the velocity - distance relation
• Quote from Shapley:
  "I have found the..."

Big Bang or Steady State?

• Who Was George Gamow?
• A Gamow joke
• Who Was Fred Hoyle?
• Who Was Tommy Gold?
• New Genesis
• Gamow Verse
• Ryle vs. Hoyle
• Who Was Robert Dicke?

• Who Was George Willis Ritchey?

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