- A general introduction
- Astronomy before the invention of the telescope
- Contemporary cosmological reflections
- Kepler’s model
- Publication of „De revolutionibus”
- Reception of the discovery in Europe – the views of the Church and of other scholars on the heliocentric theory
- The Big Bang model
- The concept of many worlds
- The genesis of the discovery – Copernicus’ works on the heliocentric theory
- The importance of Copernicus’ discovery for the development of the humanities
- The importance of Copernicus’ discovery for the development of the sciences
- The model of a stationary state
- The nature of Copernicus discoveries
- The nineteenth century and the birth of astrophysics
- The telescope and celestial mechanics
- Tycho Brahe’s model