Download Views of the Solar System : History of Astronomy

Views of the Solar System : History of Astronomy
Scientist/
Astronomer
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Galileo
Tycho
Kepler
Name: ________________________________________
Was technology
used? What type?
● Naked eye
Country of
Origin
● Greece
Approx.
Year
350 BC
● Geocentric Model
● Predicted the positions the planets are in now
● Naked eye
● Greece
140 AD
● “Founder of modern Astronomy”
● Heliocentric Model​
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● Believed in Earth‛s rotation on its axis once each day
and that Earth revolves around the sun once a year
● Naked eye
● Poland
1543 AD
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● Created a
very advanced
telescope
● Italy
1610 AD
● Heliocentric Model
● Made careful observations
● Recorded positions of the planets
● Naked eye
● Denmark
Late
1500‛s
● Heliocentric Model
● Used Tycho‛s data to find elliptical orbits of our
planets
● Naked eye
● Telescope
● Germany
1500s1600‛s
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Describe their model of the Solar System &
other important facts (nicknames, etc)
“Grandfather of Science”
Geocentric Model
Observed Earth is a sphere
Thought the planets and stars moved around the Earth
in perfect circles
Heliocentric Model
Used telescope to confirm sun centered system
Discovered Jupiters 4 largest moons
Observed that we can see phases like our moon when
we look at Venus
Geocentric means: Earth centered model
Heliocentric means: Sun centered model