Copernicus
This was Copernicus's religion.
What is Christianity?
Kepler’s second law.
What is a planet’s speed changes as it moves around the Sun?
The third planet from the sun.
What is the Earth?
This is the shape that he believed planets orbited in
What are circles?
Big yellow ball of burning gas.
What is the sun?
The result of the tilting of the plane of Earth’s equator, according to Copernicus.
What are changing seasons?
The orbital shape that best fit Kepler's data.
What is an ellipse?
The first planet from the sun.
What is Mercury?
The circular orbit of a planet, the center of which revolves around the Earth in another circle.
What is an epicycle?
Reflects the light of the sun at night.
What is the moon?
Copernicus's nationality.
What is Polish?
Kepler’s third law.
What is the harmonic law?
The 8th planet from the sun.
What is Neptune?
The apparent shifting of nearby objects with respect to distant ones as the position of the observer changes.
What is the parallax?
Group of stars in a pattern.
What is a constellation?
One incorrect assumption Copernicus made in his model.
What is planets moving at a constant speed?
The person that Kepler worked with.
Who is Tycho Brahe?
The planet with rings. It's the 5th planet from the sun.
What is Saturn?
The amount of time that Ptolemy's model of the universe was accepted among scientists.
What is 1300 years?
Group of constellations that the sun passes through on its apparent path along the ecliptic.
What is the zodiac?
The type of model of the universe did Copernicus’ religious beliefs push him to investigate.
What is sun-centered, or heliocentric?
The disease the Kepler almost died from.
What is smallpox?
The red planet.
What is Mars?
This is the approximate date that Ptolemy lived.
What is AD 150?
Backward motion of a planet.
What is retrograde motion?