astronomy Flashcards
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Ptolemy
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Hellenistic mathematician, astronomer, and geographer in Alexandria
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Copernicus
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Polish astronomer who promulgated the now accepted theory that the earth and the other planets move around the sun
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Brahe, Tycho
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Danish astronomer. from 1546 to 1601
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Kepler
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1571–1630, German astronomer
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Galileo
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1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer.
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Newton, Isaac
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Newton, Sir Isaac 1642-1727.
English mathematician and scientist. He invented a form of calculus and formulated principles of physics
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Hubble, Edwin
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An American astronomer of the twentieth century. Hubble was the first to show that there are galaxies
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Ursa major
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Big dipper and big bear.
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Ursa minor
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Little dipper and little bear.
