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Eratosthenes created the Sieve of Eratosthenes, an ancient algorithm for finding all prime numbers up to a given limit
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Ptolemy created a star catalog and earliest surviving table of trigonomic fuctions
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Copernicus is most famous for proposing that the sun is not revolving around the Earth as perviously thought, but a stationary object that we revolve around.
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Brahe proposed the original theory of a solar system, this containing elements of both the Earth centered Ptolemaic system and the Sun centered Copernican system
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Johannes Kepler discovered that instead of circular movements the planets move in elliptical motions
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Issac Newton discovered and published the law of gravity in either 1665 or 1666
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Einsteins quantum theory of light states that light is a composition of small packets of energy which are called photons and have wave like properties