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History of Astronomy Aristotle 380 B. C.

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Page 2: History of Astronomy Aristotle 380 B. C.. Earth Centered Universe Stars & everything else orbited earth. Earth-(center) Moon Mercury Venus Sun Mars Jupiter

Earth Centered UniverseStars & everything else

orbited earth.

Earth-(center)Moon

Mercury

VenusSun

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Page 4: History of Astronomy Aristotle 380 B. C.. Earth Centered Universe Stars & everything else orbited earth. Earth-(center) Moon Mercury Venus Sun Mars Jupiter

Earth Centered Solar System(Ptolomy)

Earth-(center)Moon

Mercury

VenusSun

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Page 5: History of Astronomy Aristotle 380 B. C.. Earth Centered Universe Stars & everything else orbited earth. Earth-(center) Moon Mercury Venus Sun Mars Jupiter

Columbus:Sailor (1492 A.D.) Sailed around the Earth-It was

“NOT” square & flat.

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Sun Centered Solar System(Copernicus)

Sun-(center)

Moon

Mercury

VenusEarth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Page 8: History of Astronomy Aristotle 380 B. C.. Earth Centered Universe Stars & everything else orbited earth. Earth-(center) Moon Mercury Venus Sun Mars Jupiter

Tyco Brahe: Danish Astronomer (1550 A. D.) & his Astrolabe

                    

 

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Johannes Kepler: (German)

                    

 

Oval or Ellipse Orbits

Not Circular orbits

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Newton: English (1668)

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Jansky 1931--Built the 1st Radio telescope--better technology

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Sputnic 1957--1st Satellite Russian--better technology

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Hubble 1924--1st Space Telescope 1- showed other galaxies existed beyond the edge of the Milky way; 2- Confirmed that the universe is much larger than our galaxy—that the universe is expanding and an getting bigger.