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Astronomy: The Original Science STUDYING SPACE. Modern Calendar Based on observations of bodies in our solar system.

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1 Astronomy: The Original Science STUDYING SPACE

2 Modern Calendar Based on observations of bodies in our solar system

3 Day Time required for Earth to rotate once on its axis

4 Month Time required for the moon to revolve once around Earth

5 Year Time required for Earth to revolve once around the Sun

6 TWO CAMPS OF THOUGHT PtolemyCopernicus

7 Sun is center of universe All heavenly bodies revolve around Sun Spurred major changes in science & society Earth is center of universe All heavenly bodies revolve around Earth TWO CAMPS OF THOUGHT PtolemyCopernicus

8 Tycho Brahe Thought the Sun revolved around Earth & other bodies revolved around Sun Made precise observations

9 Johannes Kepler All planets revolve around the Sun Developed 3 laws of planetary motion

10 Galileo Galilei First to use a telescope to observe objects in space

11 Galileo’s Discoveries Craters on moon Mountains on moon 4 moons of Jupiter Sunspots on the Sun

12 Sir Isaac Newton Law of Gravity Explained why all planets orbit the most massive object in solar system - Sun

13 Edwin Hubble Proved that there are other galaxies in universe. Confirmed belief that universe is much larger than first thought.


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