Ptotemaic solar system

History of Western Cosmology

  • 350 BCE

    Aristotle Develops Model of the Universe

  • 270 BCE

    Aristarchus Proposes Heliocentrism

  • 240 BCE

    Eratosthenes Measures Earth's Circumference

  • 46 BCE

    Julian Calendar Adopted

  • 140

    Ptolemy Publishes the Almagest

  • 499

    Aryabhata Proposes Elliptical Orbits

  • 773

    Sanskrit Works Translated into Arabic

  • 780

    Astrolabe Invented

  • 1126

    Islamic and Indian Texts Translated into Latin

  • 1261

    al-Tusi Criticizes Ptolemy

  • 1543

    Copernicus Publishes Heliocentric Model

  • 1572

    Tycho's Supernova

  • 1576

    Tycho Builds Uraniborg

  • 1582

    Gregorian Calendar Adopted

  • Kepler Works with Tycho

  • Kepler Publishes 3 Laws

  • Galileo Publishes Observations with Telescope