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Astronomy The study of celestial objects that
originate outside of the Earth’s atmosphere and is depended upon technology available.
Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences
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Astrology
The belief that the position of the Sun and the Stars affect your life
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Ancient Man
Studied the skies for: Navigation Telling time Planting and harvesting crops Making Calendars Worshiping their gods
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Mesopotamians Built observatories
called ziggurats Named brighter stars
and planets
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Babylonians
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Babylonians
Tracked the movement of planets Kept records of star and planet
movement
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Egyptians Aligned their pyramids
with the Sun and stars
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Chinese
Kept records of eclipses, comets, meteor showers and supernova explosions
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Mesoamericans Mayans and Aztecs Made calendars that included the
Moon, the Sun, the stars and Venus
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Islamic Astronomy
First astronomical instrument: Astrolabe
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http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/
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Anaximander Earth is a cylinder
floating in space and the Sun, Moon, stars and planets are wheels filled with fire
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Pythagoras Earth is a sphere: NOT
FLAT Earth is the center of the
solar system
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Aristotle
Tried to prove that the Earth is a sphere Earth is the center and is too big to move
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Aristarchus Calculated the size of the Sun and the Moon The Sun is the center of the solar system;
NOT EARTH
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Eratosthenes Used geometry to calculate the
circumference of the Earth
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Ptolemy Made maps: north, south, east and
west Also Latitude and longitude
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Nicklaus Copernicus
Made the first Sun-centered model of the solar system
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Kepler
The laws of planetary motion Planet’s orbits are elliptical, not circular
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Galileo
Invented the first telescope
Discovered moons around Jupiter and the Saturn's rings
Mapped the moon
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Sir Isaac Newton
Law of universal gravity and laws of motion explained how planets orbit
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Herschel Discovered Uranus Spent his life
improving telescopes
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Albert Einstein Theory of relativity E = mc² Space and time curve in the
presence of matter
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Edwin Hubble Discovered evidence to
help prove that the universe is expanding
Red shift data
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Lemaitre
Catholic priest and physics professor
Proposed the Big Bang Theory