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Astrology is the belief that the location of the stars and planets on the day you were born determines your personality and your life. Not based on any scientific evidence!

Humans have built stone structures all over the world to track the celestial objects. Many are very famous tourist attractions today.

Stonehenge is one very famous rock formation that indicates that prehistoric people of England used the stars to help them keep track of time and the seasons. Stonehenge today

It seems to have been designed to allow for observation of astronomical phenomena - summer and winter solstices, eclipses, and more.

Why would they care?!? 1.To know when crops could be safely planted. 2.To know when crops needed to be harvested. 3. To try to understand their world!

The ancient Greeks were some of the first people to try to explain why natural events occurred without reference to supernatural causes. books.com/books_hunt_living_in_ancient _greece.html

Ptolemy A.D. 140 Reasoned that the Earth was the center of the universe.

People believed his “geocentric” system for 1500 years. Why: Because visually, it appeared to be correct.

His evidence: *The moon circled the earth. *The sun seemed to circle the earth too. *He concluded that the stars must also. His problem: *Planet motions would not fit. *This idea is called GEOCENTRIC.

Ptolemy’s model Notice where the sun is!

Early astronomers looked for patterns and mathematical relationships. Astronomers wanted to find evidence to support or reject Ptolemy’s ideas.

Nicholas Copernicus Polish Astronomer Mathematician Early 1500’s

1.Found evidence for the idea of a heliocentric system. 2.Said that the moon revolved around the earth. 3. The earth rotated to cause day and night. 4.The earth revolved around the sun to cause a year. 5.Motions of planets could be explained easily with his system.

Copernicus died before he learned what an uproar his ideas would cause! He did suspect, because he waited until just before he died to publish his work!

Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe collected quantitative data for many years. Often he did not see the relationships among his data, but kept it anyway.

1. First to predict that orbits were not circular. 2.Measured length of day to within 1 second. 3. Data later used to prove that the planets orbit the sun.

NASA

Kepler was an assistant to Tycho in the late 1500s. Took Tycho’s years of observations and used math to come up with his three laws of planetary motion.

1. Figured out that planets closer to the sun feel a stronger solar force and therefore move faster. 2.Used Tycho’s data to mathematically figure out that planets’ orbits are not round.

1. Did not invent the telescope but did improve it. 2. First to turn the scope to the sky to study astronomy. 3. Saw that there were features on the moon. Highlands and maria. 4. Discovered sunspots and that they proved the sun was not perfect and turned on its axis.

5.Saw 4 moons of Jupiter that looked like a mini solar system. 6.This helped prove that Earth was revolving around the sun. 7. Used experiments to prove and disprove ideas. 8. Saw that Venus went through phases like the moon – indicating change in angle.

NASA

Photo of Venus going through phases like the moon. Picture of Galileo’s original drawings of Saturn and Venus. sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov

Used lenses lined up in a row. alpha.montclair.edu

Inertia The tendency of a moving object to continue in a straight line or a stationary object to remain at rest.

Gravity The attractive force between objects - the force depends on the mass of the two objects.

Newton’s Telescope

A “Newtonian” telescope used today.