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    Aristarchus (310-230 BC) was one of the first astronomers to deduce that the Earth rotates on its axis and put the Sun at the center of the solar system with the planets in the correct order. Ptolemy (100-170 BC) proposed the "equant point" which helped astronomers see planets move at uniform speeds. Nicole Oresme (1377) argued for heliocentrism and the possibility that the Earth revolves around the Sun through rational arguments and mathematical graphs. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) proposed the heliocentric model where the Earth rotates daily and revolves yearly around the Sun, first writing about it in 1514 and

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    Aristarchus (310-230 BC) was one of the first astronomers to deduce that the Earth rotates on its axis and put the Sun at the center of the solar system with the planets in the correct order. Ptolemy (100-170 BC) proposed the "equant point" which helped astronomers see planets move at uniform speeds. Nicole Oresme (1377) argued for heliocentrism and the possibility that the Earth revolves around the Sun through rational arguments and mathematical graphs. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) proposed the heliocentric model where the Earth rotates daily and revolves yearly around the Sun, first writing about it in 1514 and

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    310 BC - 230 BC: Astronomers Year Major Contributions To Astronomy

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    Astronomers Year 

    Major Contributions
    to Astronomy
    Aristarchus

     He even deduced that the earth rotates


    310 BC on its axis.
    –
    230 BC  He put the sun in the center of the solar
    system, and then put the planets in their
    correct order around it.

    Picture not mine-Credits to the owner

    Ptolemy

    100  “Equant Point”—an imaginary


    - mathematical point that helped earlier
    astronomers see planets move at
    170 BC uniform speeds.

    Picture not mine-Credits to the owner

    Nicole Oresme
     Oresme argued for heliocentrism, or the theory
    1066 that the earth might revolve around the sun.

     He went about this rationally, for example,


    lining up arguments for or against an earth that
    rotates on its axis in his book Livre du ciel et
    1377 du monde, or The Book of Heaven and the
    World. He noted that it made more sense for
    the earth to move than for all of the heavens to
    Picture nit mine-Credits to the owner
    move around the earth.
     Oresme contributed a lot to math and physics.
    He pioneered the use of mathematical graphs
    to describe how objects move through space
    over time.

    Astronomers Year Major Contributions to Astronomy

    Nicolaus Copernicus  He decided that retrograde motion—


    planets seemingly traveling around in
    loopty-loops.
     Copernicus proposed a heliocentric
    universe of the cosmos: in this model,
    the earth rotates on its axis once every
    1473 twenty-four hours, and the Earth
    - revolves around the sun once every
    year.
    1543  Copernicus first wrote about
    heliocentrism in his Commentariolus, or
    mini-commentary, in 1514.
     On his deathbed in 1543, he received
    the first copy of his book the De
    revolutionibus orbium cœlestium, or
    Photo not mine-Credits to the owner what all the cool cats call “De rev”—On
    the Revolutions of the Heavenly
    Spheres.
    Rheticus

    1540  Published Narratio prima, or The First


    Account.

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