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Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ARISTOTLE

  • Birth/death 384–322 B.C.E.
  • Astronomy contrabutions
  • Aristotle's theory of logic completely accounted for the core of deductive inference.

ARISTARCHUS

  • Birth/death 310-230 B.C.E.
  • Astronomy contrabutions
  • presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe

PTOLEMY

  • Birth/death 90-168 A.C.D.
  • Astronomy contrabutions
  • Ptolemy gave a parapegma, a star calendar or almanac

JOHANESE KEPLER

  • Birth/death December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630
  • Astronomy contrabutions
  • best known for his laws of planetary motion
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NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

  • Birth/death February 1473 – 24 May 1543
  • Astronomy contrabutions
  • formulated a heliocentric model of the universe which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.

GALILEO GALILEI

  • Birth/death February 1564 January 1642
  • Astronomy contributions
  • improvements to the telescope
  • discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter

ISAAC NEWTON

  • Birth/death November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953
  • Astronomy contributions
  • implying the universe is expanding.