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Beginning of Astrono
the beginnings of astronomy
Term | Definition |
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Heliocentric | The sun is at the center with all the planets revolving around it in an ellipse |
Geocentric | The Earth is at the center with all the planets revolving around it in a circle |
Ellipse | The shape of the planets' orbit, oval shape |
Ptolemy | a Greek geocentric astronomer who thought the planets revolved and rotates in their own celestial sphere |
Romans | Name the the following planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars Jupiter, and Saturn |
Greeks | First given credit for observing the solar system |
Brahe | A danish, heliocentric astronomer who observed and recorded the planets for over 20 years the planets |
Galileo | Created the telescope and made discoveries that supported a heliocentric system |
Plato | A Greek astronomer who thought the planets went around the Earth in a circle |
Aristotle | A student of Plato, thought everything was made up of air, earth, fire and water |
Copernicus | The father of the Heliocentric model, he was not believed in his time |
Kepler | Using the observations of Brahe, proved the orbit of planets are ellipses |