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History of Astronomy

    This is not an assignment!  I like you to do it and learn something that might come up in an assignment or a quiz.


     
  1. Find information on these astronomers:
    1. Hipparchus
    2. Ptolemy
    3. Nicolaus Copernicus
    4. Tycho Brahe
    5. Galileo Galilei
    6. Johannes Kepler
    7. Isaac Newton
    8. John Flamsteed
    9. William Herschel
    10. Johan Galle
    11. Ejnar Hertzsprung
    12. Edwin Hubble
    13. Jocelyn Bell-Burnell.
    Associate them with the following concepts:
    1. First star catalog
    2. Almagest, geocentric system
    3. heliocentric system
    4. greatest naked eye observer, very accurate data on planetary motion, SN 1572
    5. Venus' phases, our Moon's craters and maria, Jupiter's moons, SN 1608, first astronomical telescope
    6. 3 laws of planetary motion
    7. Law of Gravitation, Calculus, Laws of Motion, Optics
    8. great star catalog
    9. discoverer of Uranus
    10. one of 4 discoverers of Neptune
    11. Luminosity-Temperature diagram for plotting Main Sequence stars, Red Giant, White Dwarfs, Variable stars
    12. Law of expansion of the universe, classification of galaxies

    Find information on the geocentric and the heliocentric system.

    No need to do the following just yet.  This will be Homework 7, around the seventh week of the semester/term.

     (The text in Greek is an image (so it may not copy) since otherwise a word processor would transcribe it for you and there would be no work left for you - bummer.)

    Astronomy uses the Greek alphabet extensively. As an exercise I provided a text in English, for which I simply substituted Greek for Roman letters.

     Please note that our keyboards are not completely representing the Greek alphabet. I chose to transcribe letters in such a way: English "c" and "ch" are Greek "c-chi" , "q" and "th" are "q-theta" , "y" and "ps" are "y-psi" , "h" is "h-eta" (a short "e"-sound), "f" and "ph" are "f-phi", "w" is "w-omega" (an "o"-sound).

    This is also Homework #7.
    This is also Homework #7.


       


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