1. The Evolution of Our Understanding of the Solar System

2. How would you explain an image like this in ancient times?

3. Making a Foldable! Make a 4 flap foldable! Label the 4 flaps: –Aristotle –Ptolemy –Copernicus –Galileo Inside, note as we go through scientists: –Heliocentric or Geocentric –Important Information

4. Aristotle looks at sky and notices that all objects rise and set. He concludes that the Earth must be the center of the universe and thus the center of the solar system. This becomes known as the geocentric model. He explains the backward motion of some planets as epicycles. Aristotle: Greek Philosopher Ancient Greece ~300’s B.C.

5. http://www.astro.umass.edu/~myun/teaching/a100/images/geocentric.jpg Geocentric Model

6. Claudius Ptolemaeus: Ptolemy: Italian Astronomer 100 A.D. Ptolemy agrees with Aristotle but explains the strange phenomenon of retrograde motion by advancing theory that of “Epicycles”. Extravagant

7. Nicolas Copernicus: Polish Astronomer Late 1400’s Nicholas Copernicus, was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric theory that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. He believed the sun was the center of our solar system.

8. Heliocentric Model http://universe-review.ca/I07-02-SolarSystem.jpg

9. Galileo confirmed Copernicus’ heliocentric theory but broke an agreement not to speak about it to the church, he was placed under house arrest during the Spanish Inquisition. Galileo Galilei- Italian Astronomer Early 1600.

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11. AristotlePtolemyCopernicusGalileo Geocentric Heliocentric Geocentric Heliocentric Geocentric Heliocentric - Geocentric Heliocentric -Oldest -Creator of Geocentric -objects in the sky rise and set. -Agreed with Aristotle -Added retrograde motion 1 st to say sun is center. - This is called heliocentric (helio= sun / centric =center) -Confirmed Copernicus’s theory -House arrest and ultimately banned from his country for supporting scientific beliefs not religious.

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