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Historical Foundations of Astronomy

Historical Foundations of Astronomy. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants” – Isaac Newton. Astronomy and Human Society. Measuring time Keeping track of seasons (important for agriculture) Navigation Mythology/Cosmogony Technology.

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Historical Foundations of Astronomy

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  1. Historical Foundations of Astronomy “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants” – Isaac Newton

  2. Astronomy and Human Society • Measuring time • Keeping track of seasons (important for agriculture) • Navigation • Mythology/Cosmogony • Technology

  3. Measuring Time

  4. The Moon and Rainfall Patterns

  5. Measuring the Seasons

  6. Stone Circle in Callanish, The Hebrides, Scotland

  7. “Sun Dagger”

  8. Big Horn Medicine Wheel, Wyoming

  9. “Templo Mayor”, Tenochtitlan

  10. Mayan Observatory at Chichen Itza, Yucatan “When you notice the daughters of Atlas, the Pleiades, rising, start on your reaping, and on your sowing when they are setting.” -- Hesiod, Works and Days (800 B.C.E.)

  11. Navigation

  12. Mythology

  13. Technology

  14. The Origin of Modern Science

  15. Eratosthenes Measures the Earth

  16. The Library at Alexandria

  17. The Heavenly Spheres

  18. Ptolemy’s ModelUniverse “Epicycles”

  19. The Copernican Revolution • Born in Poland, 1473 • Developed a Sun-centered Model for the Universe • Still assumed circular orbits • Not much more accurate (or simple) than Ptolemaic Model

  20. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)

  21. Kepler (1571-1630)

  22. Kepler’s First Law

  23. Law of Equal Areas

  24. Kepler’s Third Law

  25. Galileo (1564-1642) Galileo’s Telescopes

  26. Phases of Venus

  27. Epicycle Model

  28. Heliocentric Model

  29. Moons of Jupiter

  30. Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Universal Law of Gravitation

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