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Johannes Kepler in Context
Johannes Kepler was born December 27th 1571 and died November 15th 1630. Some of his most prolific discoveries lied in the three major laws of planetary motion. The first law concluded that planets move around the sun in an elliptical orbit. The second is that the time it takes for a planet to move around […] Continue reading
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Historical Astronomers in Context
#2 – Issac Newton was extremely important to the field of astronomy, with one of his most important contributions being calculus. Newton had devised new mathematical principles to model some of his observations in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Additionally, Newton had theorized that all objects are affected by each other by the concept of […] Continue reading
Historical Astronomers in Context
My chosen astronomy is Galileo. He was born Feb 15, 1564 and died Jan 8, 1642. Galileo was important for astronomy because he published his work using telescopes to observe the night sky, discovered three of Jupiter’s moons, made detailed observations of our moon, observed the phases of Venus, described the Milky Way as being […] Continue reading
Historical Astronomers in Context
2) Galileo (February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642) was incredibly important to the progress and history of astronomy. He carried on the work done by Kepler in helping prove that the Copernican heliocentric model of our solar system was correct rather than the Aristotelian geocentric. He did this by disproving many of the objectionsContinue reading “Historical Astronomers in Context” Continue reading
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Historical Astronomers in Context by Grace
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Homework #2
A.) Nicholas Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 and died May 24, 1543. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 and died January 8, 1642. Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 and died November 15, 1630. Isaac Newton has two recorded birthdates, one December 25, 1642 and the other being January […] Continue reading
Historical Astronomers in Context
Isaac Newton January 4, 1643 – March 31, 1727 https://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/newton14.html The Thirty Years War Another historical event that happened in the time period that Newton was alive was the Thirty Years war. Well the war was a couple years from ending at about the time Newton was born. The Thirty Years War lasted from 1618-1648 […] Continue reading
Historical Astronomers in Context
Johannes Kepler (December 27th, 1571 – November 15th, 1630) was a German-born astronomer who carried out much of his scientific research in Prague. Inarguably, Kepler’s most important contributions to astronomy were his three laws of planetary motion, the first two of which he published in 1609, and the third a decade later. The first law states […] Continue reading
The Cosmic Calendar
The Cosmic Calendar is a mechanism to help us understand the history of the universe relative to something we can comprehend more easily. This method puts the history of the universe into one calendar year proportionately. Through this it can help us understand in a more conceptual way how long, for example, humans have existed […] Continue reading
My first eclipse
The solar eclipse of May 20, 2012 is the most spectacular astronomical event I have ever personally experienced. The event was an annular eclipse with the moon only blocking out the center of the sun, resulting in a ring of light around the dark moon. The eclipse occurred less than 48 hours after apogee, so […] Continue reading