Pre-Historic
Greek
Renaissance
Astronomers
Miscellaneous
100
Time keeping, Religion, Harvesting Crops
What is the reasons pre-historic people began to study astronomy
100
heliocentric
What is the model in which the sun is at the center of the universe
100
Wrongly credited with creating the telescope
What is Galileo incorrectly known for
100
Thales of Miletus
Who is the first scientist to accurately predicted a solar eclipse using geometry and observation.
100
It was built over centuries
How long did it take to build Stonehedge?
200
Geocentric
What is the model of the universe with the earth in the center
200
The Astronomer who first stated the Earth was round
What is Pythagorus
200
Was the first to recognize earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun
Who is Copernicus
200
Round
What shape did Pythagoras predict the earth and other celestrial objects were?
200
The north south axis of these stuctures are aligned with the north star.
What are the pyrimids?
300
Elliptical
What is shape of a planets orbit
300
The first scientist to explain retrograde motion
What is Euxodus
300
Reason epicycle was no longer used to explain retrograde motion.
What is Copernicus revives heliocentric theory
300
Kelpler
Who created the Laws of Planetary motion?
300
The phases of Venus are used as proof for the new theory.
What is proof that Venus orits the Sun
400
small spheres attached to larger spheres creating the illusion of backwards motion.
What is the epicycle theory
400
Aristarchus
Who is the scientist who first created the heliocentric model
400
This discovery of Galileo's eliminated the possibility of everything in the universe revolving round earth
What is Jupiter's moon.
400
Galileo
Who created the laws of motion?
400
marks the rising and setting of the sun on the solstices.
What does Stonehedge represent
500
Wanderer
What is the Greek meaning of the word planet
500
The Almagest
What is the main reference book for greek and roman astronomy
500
hybrid between heliocentric and geocentric theories
What theory did Tyco create using the star maps he created?
500
Kepler's laws of Planetary Motion
What are Orbits are ellipses, Law of areas and orbital period compared to orbital size
500
The epicycle theory
What is the theory that uses two attached spheres to explain retrograde motion?
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