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240 BCE
Eratosthenes
He invented a system of longitude and latitude and made a map of the known world also designed a system for finding prime numbers. -
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Claudius
With just his naked eye he guessed what the galaxy or outer space looked like. He thought it all evolved around earth. He posted that the Moon, Mercury, Venus, and the Sun all revolved around Earth -
Apr 4, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Discovered the radical theory of the Universe in which the earth and other planets rotated around the sun. -
Apr 4, 1572
Tycho Brahe
He showed us there are actual moving objects in space and found a new star in the Cassiopeia -
Kepler's laws
In 1605 he announced his first law; planets move in ellipse with the Sun at one focus -
Isaac Newton
Known for his discoveries in Calculus and Optics (White light compositions) You can never forget the three laws of motion -
Albert Einstein
He is very much known for E=mc2 he is also known for the photoelectric effect for which he won the Nobel Prize for physics.