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History of Astronomy - Edwin Hubble

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    Aristarchus of Samos

    Aristarchus of Samos
    310 - 230BCE (Greek)
  • 100

    Aristotle

    Aristotle
    384 - 322BCE (Greek)
  • 100

    Eratoshenes

    Eratoshenes
    276- 194BCE (Libyan)
  • 100

    Hipparchus

    Hipparchus
    190 - 120BCE (Greek)
  • 101

    Ptolemy

    Ptolemy
    90 - 168CE (Greco-Roman)
  • Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus
    1473 - 1543 (Polish)
  • Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe
    1546 - 1601 (Swedish)
  • Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    1564 - 1642 (Italian)
  • Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
    1571 - 1630 (German)

  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    1642 - 1727 (UK)

  • Henrietta Leavitt

    Henrietta Leavitt
    1868 - 1921 (American)

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    1879 - 1955 (German)

  • Alexander Friedmann

    Alexander Friedmann
    1888 - 1925 (Russian)

  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble
    Edwin Hubble @ WikipediaNovember 20, 1889, Missouri, USA - September 28, 1953, California, USA.
    Hubble extended the work of Vesto Slipher by using the larger Hooker telescope.
    He determined that the further a galaxy is from Earth, the faster it moves away.
    Identified that there were external galaxies which were not part of the Milky Way.
    He was able to do this with the research of Henrietta Leavitt's period-luminousity relationship and Einsteins equations of general relativity for an expanding space.