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Renaissance Astronomy
Chapter 4
Fig. 4.1
The Universe as
described in
Dante’s Divine
Comedy
Fig. 4.2
Timeline and Notable People and Events (Left)
And Four Most Prominent Renaissance Astronomers
(Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Galileo)
Copernicus
Fig. 4.3
Heliocentric Model (Copernicus)
Fig. 4.4
Retrograde motion according to the heliocentric model
Fig. 4.5
Fig. 4.6
Fig. 4.6
Greatest Elongation
Fig. 4.7
Mars’ epicycle in Copernicus’ model
Fig. 4.8
Tycho Brahe
Fig. 4.9
Tycho Brahe
Fig. 4.10
Parallax of a Star
Distance = 1/parallax
Kepler
Fig. 4.12
Ellipses
Fig. 4.13
Kepler’s first law: Planets move around the Sun in ellipses
Fig. 4.14
Kepler’s second law: Planets sweeps out equal areas at equal times
Kepler’s 3rd law
Kepler’s third law
Galileo
Fig. 4.15
Galileo’s Drawings
of the moon
Fig. 4.16
Fig. 4.17