- A general introduction
- Contemporary cosmological reflections
- Kepler’s model
- Reception of the discovery in Europe – the views of the Church and of other scholars on the heliocentric theory
- The Big Bang model
- The Church and the Copernican system
- The concept of many worlds
- 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 reception of the Copernican theory
- Twentieth century astronomy and cosmology
- Tycho Brahe’s model