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Copyright © InteractiveScienceLessons.com Proof That The Earth Is Round Direct Evidence: earths curved shadow on the moon during eclipse (Aristotle) ships disappear slowly as they sail away (Aristotle) southern and northern hemisphere have different sky (Aristotle)

Copyright © InteractiveScienceLessons.com Indirect Evidence: Everything else is round: sun, moon, planets, stars, comets, asteroids; this is because… Gravity pulls inward (Newton) the gods created a round world since they are perfect and a circle is also perfect (Pythagoras, 500 B.C.) The seasons: flat earth would mean equal directness of sunlight for all earth Proof That The Earth Is Round

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Whats the big deal? nearly everything is cyclic, repeating day after day, year after year which served as a way of timekeeping past cultures could then predict when to plant, harvest, sail, prepare for floods, and have festivals The appearance of the dog star, Sirius, meant there were 2 weeks until the floods Today we have calendars & watches so we dont need the stars to tell us the season or anything else

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The constellations humans must have order Stars with unusual patterns were thought to resemble animals These constellations helped civilizations recognize seasons easier (the appearance of Pisces and Aquarius, 2 water constellations, foretold stormy weather too hard for sailing)

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Major Events Aristotle (350 BC)- argued that the Earth was round And that we had a GEO-CENTRIC solar system, which translates earth-centered –Why cant you blame them for thinking that everything revolves around earth? Fatal flaw (thank goodness!)- Venus and Mercury did not appear to revolve around earth (retrograde motion)

Copyright © InteractiveScienceLessons.com More contributions Eratosthenes (200 BC) used the suns shadow to calculate earths circumference (and was only 400 meters off) Hipparchus (150 BC)- successfully used a technique calledtriangulation to accurately measure the distance between the earth and the moon The Arabs- gave us star names like Betelgeuse and Aldebaran The Chinese- kept incredibly detailed records –thanks to them we know when the Crab Nebula first novaed (1054)

Copyright © InteractiveScienceLessons.com Geocentric model in trouble 1543 Copernicus proposed the first HELIO-CENTRIC model of our solar system -translates sun-centered Galileo (1600)- observed the phases of Venus Kepler uses Brahes (1600) data to figure that the planets orbit the sun not in perfect circles but in ELLIPSES

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