ASTRONOMERS

ARISTOTLE

• Knowledge could be found from interacting with objects
• He classified animals into species
• He examined the anatomy of marine creatures

ARISTARCHUS

• was the first to give idea that the Sun was actually in the center of the universe.
• Tried to measure the distance between the earth and sun
• He didn't have success

PTOLEMY

• The focus is on assembly of concurrent components.
• He helped figure out how the planets move

COPERNICUS

• Proposed Earth orbited the Sun via De Revolutionibus Orbium
• The earth orbited the sun

KEPLER

• He made 3 laws of planetary
• He made and inverse law of intensity

GALIEO GALILEI

• is the father of observational astronomy.
• Built one of the best telescopes of that time
• The telescope wouldn't compare to a not nice on today
• Tested dropping things down and saw them hit the grounds at the same time