Ancient Astronomer’s Timeline

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  • 194 BCE

    eratosthenes

    discovered the circumfrance of the world
  • 100 BCE

    Claudius Ptolemy

    one of the first astronomers leading to years and years of new research and learnings on the universe.
  • 1500

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    discovered that the sun is the center of the universe it helps with showing exactly where we are in the universe.

  • tycho brahe

    recorded and discovered the visible orbit of heavenly bodies across the night sky. proves that all the planets are all being pulled by something.

  • Johannes Kepler

    discovered the laws of planetary motion.
    getting to know how the planets go around the sun learning more about gravity

  • Sir Isaac Newton

    responsible for discovering an incomplete formula for gravity
    learning how gravity works and how it is indeed a thing.

  • Albert Einstein

    he discovered the speed of light.
    helps us with distance.