historical dates

  • 340 BCE

    Aristole.earth is in the middle of the solar system

  • 200 BCE

    aristarchus. idea of the sun being in the middle of the solar system

  • 150 BCE

    Ptolemy.suggests the idea of epicycles on how the planets move.

  • 1543

    copernicus. suggests the sun is in the centre of the solar system

  • Galileo. made advencements in the telescope

  • Kepler.He suggests three laws of planetary motion and that orbits are ellipses and not circles.

  • Isaac neewton.Suggested the idea of planetary gravity.

  • William Herschel .Discovered Uranus

  • Edwin Hubble. the universe is expanding