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Announcements
Please pick up HW#1, due next Friday
On problem 7, should be p. 61, not p. 71
Extra Credit in this case is more mathematical, help is available
Another EC opportunity: Jan 27th, 7 pm, planetarium show on the Solar System. Please sign up at the link on Carmen
Next reading assignment posted to Carmen
Please turn off all electronic devices
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What can you conclude about A vs B?
a) A has a larger physical size than B
b) B has a larger physical size than A
c) A has a larger angular size than B
d) B has a larger angular size than A
e) a and c are both true
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B
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The Heliocentric UniverseThe Heliocentric Universe
Astronomy 1143 – Spring 2014Astronomy 1143 – Spring 2014
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Key Ideas:Nicolaus Copernicus – revived the heliocentric theory
in De revolutionibus orbium celestium• Better explanation for structure of solar system• Still complicated & did not predict positions
more accurately than geocentric
Heliocentric model attractive because of the shift away from the views of Aristotle/Ptolemy
Tycho Brahe – great observer• Observer the changing heavens• Most accurate naked-eye positions for planets
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Key Ideas:Galileo Galilei -- first modern astronomer
Important Discoveries with the telescope:• Moons of Jupiter• Phases of Venus• Craters & Mountains on the Moon• Sunspots
Galileo’s observations clashed with the ideas of perfection of the heavens and the center of motion being the Earth. They undermined the foundations of the geocentric model.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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The Heliocentric System
Heliocentric = Sun-Centered
Alternative viewpoint to Geocentric:• Puts the Sun, not the Earth, at the center.• The Earth rotates & revolves around the Sun.• Stars are on an outermost celestial sphere.
Complex non-uniform & retrograde motions are a consequence of viewing the planets from a moving Earth.
It too was proposed in ancient Greece
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The Heliocentric System Revived
Revived Aristarchus’ Heliocentric system, which he knew only through Archimedes’ description in The Sand Reckoner.
• The Sun, not the Earth, is at the center.
• The Earth rotates around its axis, producing the daily motions.
• The Earth revolves around the Sun, producing the annual motions.
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Copernicus’ Solar System
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Scientific Objections
Requires very large speeds:
• Speed of rotation at equator: 1680 km/hour
No observational evidence of orbital motion:
• Stellar Parallaxes were not observed.
• Stars weren’t brighter at opposition.
Did not predict the positions of the planets better than the geocentric version
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Simple in principle
Inferior and Superior Planets:• Mercury & Venus orbit closer to the Sun • Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn are in larger orbits.
Retrograde Motion:• Consequence of observing moving planets from a
moving Earth.• By contrast, Ptolemy required epicycles to get
retrograde motion.• Copernicus only needed them for non-uniform
speeds
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EarthMars
Retrograde Motion
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Venus Position at Sunset (Sun 7° below horizon)
Photo by Tunç Tezel (Ankara, Turkey)
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Position of Mercury at Sunset(2004 March-April)
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Mercury and Venus in Heliocentric Universe
Stay close to the Sun because they are closer to the
Sun than the Earth is
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Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn in Heliocentric Universe
Can appear opposite in the sky to the Sun because
they are further away from the Sun than the Earth is
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Out with the old….
The heliocentric model was not immediately adopted
• Had some of the same complexity as the Ptolemaic geocentric system
• Did not give more accurate predictions
• Scientific objections remained
However, over the next decades, observations would be made that challenged the views of Aristotle/Ptolemy.
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Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)Danish nobleman, brilliant astronomer and instrument builder.
• Admired Copernicus as a mathematician.
• Did not like the idea of a moving Earth.
The greatest naked-eye astronomer of thepre-telescope age.
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Uraniborg
He built “Uraniborg” (Heavenly Castle) on the island of Hven with royal support.
• Equipped with the best instruments.
• Achieved an unprecedented 12 arcminute measurement precision.
Became an important center for astronomical research in Europe.
Neither Ptolemaic nor Copernican systems could match his data.
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Tools of Tycho Brahe
Sextant
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Aristotle & the Heavens
One of the principles of Aristotle is that the heavens do not change. All change happens in atmosphere of Earth or below
The heavens are perfect, not like the Earth
Earth is the center of all motion
If these principles are wrong, could geocentrism also be wrong?
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Tycho’s Observations
He observed the bright comet of 1577 and could not measure a parallax
Comet must be further away than the Moon
In 1572, he observed the appearance of a “new star”, what we now know is the explosion of a white dwarf, leaving behind a faint glowing remnant
This “Type Ia supernova” is another example that the heavens are changing.
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SN 1572 -- ObservationsTycho published De nova stella in 1573Clearly showed that this was among the fixed starsCoined the term “nova” to describe the phenomenon.SN remnant identified in 1952 by Hanbury et al. as 3C10
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SN 1572 -- Observations
This SN was recorded by the official astronomers in both China and Korea, no known Japanese records.
Big difference in European records compared to previous “nova”
• Tycho Brahe made extensive quantitative measurements of position and brightness
• Clearly a SN just from reading his records
• Sometimes known as Tycho’s SN
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SN 1572-- Remnant
Look, ma, I exploded!
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SN 1572 – Light Echoes
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)Italian contemporary of Kepler:
• Gifted mathematician• Brilliant observer &
experimenter
Preferred experimentation and measurement to philosophical rhetoric.
• Staunch anti-Aristotelian• Often at odds with the
scholarly establishment
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The TelescopeThe telescope was invented in 1608
by Hans Lipperhey, a Dutch spectaclemaker.
Word spread fast:• In April 1609, you could buy one in
eyeglass shops in Paris.• First one reached Italy in August of 1609
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Close up of the originalprimary lens
Galileo’s Telescopes
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“...a most beautiful & delightful sight ”
1610: published his observations as the Sidereus Nucius (The Starry Messenger)Later observations were published in letters
& in a longer work, The Assayer, in 1623.The most important to us here are:
• Craters & Mountains on the Moon• Sunspots & Solar Rotation• Moons of Jupiter• Phases of Venus
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Sunspots
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Moons of Jupiter (January 1610)
The Earth is not the only center of motion in the Universe.
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Phases of Venus
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The discovery of the phases of Venus was more evidence that the planets orbit the Sun and not the Earth.
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Impact of Galileo’s ObservationsThe impact was immediate and forceful:
• Kepler was delighted, and soon acquired his own telescope, as did many others.
• Many scholars began to take the Copernican system seriously as a physical description.
• Hardcore skeptics claimed that the telescope (and Galileo) was lying and entrenched.
With the telescope, everyone could literally “see for themselves”.
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Galileo’s villa in Arcetri, outside Florence
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Eppur si muove (and still, it moves)
Galileo spent his final 4 years in blindness, and died under house arrest, on January 8, 1642.
On Christmas Day of that same year (O.S.), Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe England.
In 1992, 350 years later, Pope John Paul II officially declared Galileo innocent.
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Geocentric vs. Heliocentric
While the observations of Tycho and Galileo showed that not all ideas of the ancient Greeks were correct, they do not definitely show that the Earth moves.
Kepler and Newton were to seal the deal for the heliocentric version by their descriptions and explanations for the orbits of the planets.
Heliocentric theory was accepted before the first evidence that the Earth moves.