HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY

ASTRONOMERS

• Aristotle Galileo
• Aristarchus
• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Kepler

ARISTOTLE

• Ancient Greek philosopher
• Made ethics and theory's upon many discoveries
• Wrote books about space and galaxies
• Made "Laws of the Universe"

ARISTARCHUS

• Greek astronomer and mathematician
• First to present that the sun is at the center of the universe
• Theories about the distance of the Sun, Moon and Earth

PTOLEMY

• Known as a Greek; philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and geographer
• Listed and named the 80 constellations
• Computed the future and past placements of the planets

COPERNICUS

• Resistance mathematician and astronomer
• Formulated a model of the universe
• Theory that the sun is in the middle of the universe.

KEPLER

• German astronomer and mathematician
• Studied the Mars orbit
• Showed the differences between the heat of objects closer, or further away from the sun

GALILEO

• Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer etc...
• Main scientist in the "Scientific Revolution"
• Improved the telescope
• Discovered satellites (moons) on planets, also sunspots

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