Early Astronomers
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- the theory that the sun and other planets revolve around the sun
- Potolmy, Geocentric theory
- the planets, including the earth orbit the sun
- Copernicus, Heliocentric theory
- Earth centered theory that the other planets revolve around the sun, and the sun and moon revolve around the Earth
- Tyco Brahe
- __________ furthered Brahe's work:___________ believed that all the planet's revolve around the sun in eliptical orbits
- Johannes Keppler
- first person to use a telescope to observe celestial bodies
- Gallileo Galilei
- In 1687 he explained why planets orbit the sun
- Newton
- group of stones that line up with the summer soltice, (6,000 years ago)
- Nabta
- stones that align with the sunrise during the winter and summer soltice
- Stonhenge
- tracked the positions of planets and the moon
- Babalonians
- could predict eclipses and named over 800 stars
- Ancient Chinese
- (ancient greek astonomer) _____________ explained the phases of the moon and eclipses and argued that the Earth was a sphere
- Aristotle
- (Native American) ___________ buildings were lined with celestial bodies
- Myan
- took over where the greeks left off- many stars have ____________ic names
- Ancient Arabs