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Period: 476 to 550
Aryabhatta
Aryabhatta was a mathematician that lived in India but most importantly he was a famous astronomer and he was the only person (in the 400's) that knew that the planets revolve around the sun and he knew why solar and lunar eclipses occured -
Period: Feb 24, 1473 to Feb 24, 1543
Copernicus
Copernicus he knew that the earth went around the sun not the sun revolved -
Period: Feb 17, 1564 to
Galileo
Galileo was a philosipher mathematician physisist and improved the telescope but he was most famous for discovering sunspots and he found out that the Moon had an eregular surface and the phases of venus -
First animal in space
The first animal into space was a fruit fly