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Eratosthenes

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First to guess circumference of the Earth

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Aristarchus

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First to believe heliocentric

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Hipparchus

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Star catalog and measured length of year

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Aristotle

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Believed the Earth is round

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Claudius Ptolemy

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Ptolemaic System accounted for the movements of planets

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Galileo Galilei

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Discovered four moons, planets are circular disks, Venus has phases, Moon was not smooth, and Sunspots

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Sir Isaac Newton

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Universal Gavitation

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Johannes Kepler

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Laws of Planetary Motion:

  1. Planets move in an ellipse
  2. Sun sweeps equal area in equal time
  3. Square the length the orbital period equals its distance to the Sun
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