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3100 BCE
Egypt
A giant woman who devours the sun -
1800 BCE
Mayan observations
Movement of stars and planets -
1400 BCE
Mesoamerica
The Earth divided the Universe -
800 BCE
Middle age
The Earth is the center of the universe -
The Renaissance
Heleocentric theory -
William Herschel
He mapped the Milky Way -
Edwin Hubble
Spiral nebulae are galaxies -
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
Discovery of a planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun -
Carl Sagan
Rational scientific thinking -
California Institude of Technology
100 billion planets in the Milky Way -
New communication means
Science is shared and technology advance