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Astronomy: The Original Science STUDYING SPACE
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Modern Calendar Based on observations of bodies in our solar system
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Day Time required for Earth to rotate once on its axis
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Month Time required for the moon to revolve once around Earth
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Year Time required for Earth to revolve once around the Sun
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TWO CAMPS OF THOUGHT PtolemyCopernicus
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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
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Tycho Brahe Thought the Sun revolved around Earth & other bodies revolved around Sun Made precise observations
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Johannes Kepler All planets revolve around the Sun Developed 3 laws of planetary motion
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Galileo Galilei First to use a telescope to observe objects in space
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Galileo’s Discoveries Craters on moon Mountains on moon 4 moons of Jupiter Sunspots on the Sun
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Sir Isaac Newton Law of Gravity Explained why all planets orbit the most massive object in solar system - Sun
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Edwin Hubble Proved that there are other galaxies in universe. Confirmed belief that universe is much larger than first thought.
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