historical foundations of astronomy “if i have seen farther than others, it is because i have...
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Historical Foundations of Astronomy
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants” – Isaac Newton
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Astronomy and Human Society
Measuring timeKeeping track of seasons (important for
agriculture)NavigationMythology/CosmogonyTechnology
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Measuring Time
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The Moon and Rainfall Patterns
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Measuring the Seasons
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Stone Circle in Callanish, The Hebrides, Scotland
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“Sun Dagger”
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Big Horn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming
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“Templo Mayor”, Tenochtitlan
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“When you notice the daughtersof Atlas, the Pleiades, rising, start on your reaping, and onyour sowing when they aresetting.”
-- Hesiod,Works and Days(800 B.C.E.)
Mayan Observatory at Chichen Itza, Yucatan
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Navigation
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Mythology
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Technology
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The Origin of Modern Science
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Eratosthenes Measures the Earth
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The Library at Alexandria
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The Heavenly Spheres
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Ptolemy’s
ModelUniverse
“Epicycles”
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The Copernican Revolution
Born in Poland, 1473Developed a Sun-centered
Model for the UniverseStill assumed circular
orbitsNot much more accurate
(or simple) than Ptolemaic Model
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Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
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Kepler (1571-1630)
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Kepler’s First Law
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Law of Equal Areas
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Kepler’s Third Law
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Galileo (1564-1642)
Galileo’s Telescopes
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Phases of Venus
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Epicycle Model
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Heliocentric Model
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Moons of Jupiter
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Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Universal Law of Gravitation