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Chloe's Astronomers

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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ARISTOTLE

  • 384-322 BCE
  • Proved the earth is a sphere and at the center of the universe
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ARISTARCHUS

  • 310-230 BC
  • Was the first to put forward the idea that the sun was the center of the universe
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PTOLEMY

  • 100-170 CE
  • Created the first model to predict the movements of
  • The sun, planets, moon, and stars
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COPERNICUS

  • 1473-1543
  • Concluded that the sun was the center of the universe
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JOHANENES KEPLER

  • 1571-1630
  • Developed three laws of planetary motion
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GALILEO GALILEI

  • 1564-1642
  • Improved and created a telescope to observe the moon, planets, and stars
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ISAAC NEWTON

  • 1643-1727
  • Developed mathematics to describe the models of Copernicus and Kepler
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EDWIN HUBBLE

  • 1889-1953
  • Discovered that faraway galaxies are moving away from us

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