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Origins Of Modern Astronomy Flashcards

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Golden Age of Astronomy

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Aristotle, Aristarchus, Hiparchus, Eratothenes, Claudius Ptolemy

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“The 🌍 is a sphere”

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Aristotle

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Heliocentric model

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Aristarchus

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Star Catalog

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Hiparchus

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Measured 🌍’s circumference

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Eratosthenes

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constructed a geocentric cosmological model

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Claudius Ptolemy

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Heliocentric model

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Compiled the Almagest (great work)

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Claudius Ptolemy

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studied the heavenly bodies for 20 years to disprove Copernican theory

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Tycho Brahe

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Planets move in ellipses

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Johannes Kepler

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discovered that the orbit of Mars is not a perfect circle but is slightly elliptical

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Johannes Kepler

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3 laws of Planetary Motion

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Johannes Kepler

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Invented the telescope

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Galileo Galilei

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The discovery of Jupiter’s four largest satellites or Moons.

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Galileo Galilei

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Planets are Earth-like, not sun-like.

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Galileo Galilei

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Moon is also Earth-like.

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Galileo Galileo

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The sun had sunspots.

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Galileo Galilei

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3 laws of Motion

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Isaac Newton

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Law of Universal Gravitation

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Isaac Newton

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the force of gravity, combined with the tendency of a planet to remain in straight-line motion would result in a planet having an elliptical orbit

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Isaac Newton

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slight variances in the orbits

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Perturbation

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the mass of the Sun is known from Earth’s orbit, and Earth’s mass has been determined from the orbit of moon

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Isaac Newton

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Star patterns for Agriculture, hunting, etc

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Ancient Astronomy

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Evolution of Astronomy

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  1. Naked eye
  2. Telescope
  3. Applied math
  4. Photography
  5. Digital detectors
  6. Computers
  7. Outer space

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