1. A short history of Astronomy Bernie Brenner PostGrad Cert Astronomy (Swinburne) Pelvic Floor Clinic North Shore

2. Stonehenge

3. Chinese Guest star Comet Halley ?1059 BC Guest star – supernova Crab Nebula July 1054

4. Greeks Pythagoras of Samos 580 BC Aristotle 384 BC Aristarchus 310 BC Eratosthenes 276 BC Ptolemy 85 AD

5. Islamic Astronomy 8 th to 14 th century Contributions –Equatorium (analog computer) –Planisphere –Mechanical lunisolar calendar computer –Spherical astrolabe –Many stars have Arabic names

6. Nicolas Copernicus 1473 Mathematician, physician, canon De Revolutionibus – published on his death bed

7. Age of Empirism Tycho Brahe 1546 -1601 Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630 Galileo Galilei 1564 - 1642

8. Isaac Newton 1643 - 1727 “Principia” –Universal gravitation –3 laws of motion Every body remains at rest unless acted on by an external force F = ma Action – reaction law

9. Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955 E = mc^2 Laws of general and special relativity

10. Spectroscopy Newton 1666 – prism Wollaston 1801 – dark lines Fraunhofer lines 1821 Doppler 1840 Draper Catalog 1918 Hertzsprung-Russell diagram 1922

11. Astronomer Doctors Ibn al-Haytham 965 AD Abu ibn Sina 980 AD Jacob ben Machir 1236 AD Nicholas Copernicus 1473 Galileo Galilei 1564 Heinrich Olbers 1758 William Wollaston 1766 Henry Draper 1837