Famous Astrometers By: Max Norby
Published on Dec 01, 2015
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ARISTOTLE
- He was a Greek philosopher
- He thought earth was the center of all things
- His model placed the moon,sun,planets and stars on a series of circles that surrounded earth.
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ARISTARCHUS
- Was a Greek astrometer and mathematition
- He was one of the first to have a model of the solar system
- His model was not accepted
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PTOLEMY
- He was an astrometer, geographer, and a mathematition
- He made a book about space and our solar system
- He believed that a celestial body traveled at a constant spend in a circle.
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COPERNICUS
- He was polish astrometer
- He felt that Ptolemy model of the solar system was to complicated.
- In his time you could only observe space from the naked eye
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KEPLER
- He was a German mathematition and astrometer
- He realized that the planets did not move in a perfect circle
- He recorded three principles that are called the keplers laws
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