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history of astronomy

By kb51
  • 322 BCE

    aristotle

    aristotle
    384-322 BC -earth is round- we are center of universe- sun moon stars rotate around us on clear "shells"
  • 190 BCE

    hipparchus

    hipparchus
    measured the distance from the Earth to the Moon during a solar eclipse that was a total eclipse at Syene and a partial eclipse at Alexandria.-
  • 127

    Ptolemy,

    Ptolemy,
    he thought the earth was the center of the universe, or geocentric model
  • Feb 19, 1473

    copernicus

    copernicus
    was an astronomer, mathematician, translator, artist, and physicist among other things.
  • 1546

    tyco brahe

    tyco brahe
    the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts.
  • Hans lippershey

    Hans lippershey
    he is commonly related to the telescope
  • Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
    He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. he was Tycho Brahe assessment
  • gallieo

    gallieo
    he found IO Callisto Ganymede European which are Jupiter 4 moons. he did not, against popular belief, discover the telescope
  • reflecting telescope

    reflecting telescope
    uses mirrors instead of glass.
  • giovanni cassini

    giovanni cassini
    determined the distance from Earth to Mars and made successful measurements of longitude.
  • sir Isaac Newton

    sir Isaac Newton
    laws of motion. using others work he invented the reflected telliscope.
  • william herschel

    william herschel
    Herschel constructed his first large telescope in 1774, after which he spent nine years carrying out sky surveys to investigate double stars. . He also discovered the tech we use for infrared scanning.
  • refracting telescope

    refracting telescope
    it uses clear lenses to maginafy the stars, moon, etc.
  • ejnar hertzprung

    ejnar hertzprung
    In 1913 he determined the distances to several Cepheid variable stars.In this determination he made a mistake, possibly a slip of the pen, putting the stars 10 times too close.
  • Percival Lowell

    Percival Lowell
    the Lowell observatory.he was obsessed with his work so he dragged a chair and table into his observatory. he also died here in Arizona!
  • Karl jansky

    Karl jansky
    At Bell Telephone Laboratories Jansky built an antenna designed to receive radio waves at a frequency of 20.5 MHz. It was mounted on a turntable that allowed it to be rotated in any direction, earning it the name "Jansky's merry-go-round". It had a diameter of approximately 100 ft. and stood 20 ft. tall. By rotating the antenna on a set of four Ford Model-T tires, the direction of a received signal could be pinpointed.
  • edwin hubble

    edwin hubble
    he discoverd that the universe is explanding
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    who developed the theory of relativity? none other that Mr. Albert Einstein. He continued to deal with problems of statistical mechanics and quantum theory, which led to his explanations of particle theory and the motion of molecules.
  • sputnik

    sputnik
    sputnik is an satellite that was launched by the soviet union. it moves at a speed of 1800 miles per hour. it is able to rotate the earth every 96 minuets.
  • Period: to

    Apollo Missions

    1961-1968 /// unmanned missions.
    1963-1966/// escape pod tests
    1967-1972/// maned missions
  • First space shuttle flight

    First space shuttle flight
    it was the apollo 1.
  • Yuri Gagarin ( Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин )

    Yuri Gagarin (  Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин )
    He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
  • Mars pathfinder expedition

    i was NOT able to find anything on this
  • cassini orbiter

    cassini orbiter
    was invented by none other than Giovanni Cassini, hence, the name. it spent 6 years, 261 days in route to Jupiter.
  • Neil Armstrong

    Neil Armstrong
    the first man on the moon.
  • John Glenn

    John Glenn
    i only found a US seneter by this name.
  • Space X Falcon Heavy

    Space X Falcon Heavy
    it was launched 15 mins after we got out of school.