History if Astronomy

What was Brahe's contribution?

First to point telescope at the heavens

Great observational astronomer

Was an idiot

Provided three laws to explain planetary rotation

What was Newtons contributions to astronomy?

Provided an description and explanation of gravity on Earth

First to suggest retrograde motion in 1700's

Showed that the universe was expanding

Explained what causes gravity

What was Ptolemy'w contributions to astronomy?

First to propose the geocentric view

First to propose the heliocentric view

Explained retrograde motions with epicycles

Showed that the universe is expanding

What was Hubble's contributions to astronomy?

Showed that the universe is expanding

Showed the universe is shrinking

Showed the cycles of the moon

Discovered the Andromeda nebula

What was Galileo's contribution to science

Pointed a binocular at the moon

First to point telescope to the heavens

Discovered the orbits of planets

Discovered the craters on the moon

What was Kepler's contributions to astronomy?

Made up three laws of planetary motion; which include the law of gravity

Made up three laws of planetary motion; elliptical orbits

Great astronomer

Worked with Newton

What was Copernicus's contributions to science?

Presented the idea that the moon is the centre of the solar system

Presented the idea that the earth is the centre of the universe

Presented the idea that the sun is the centre of the solar system

Presented the idea that saturn is the centre of the universe

What was Einsteins contributions to science?

Provided an equation for how gravity works on Earth

Explained what causes gravity

Explained what caused solar winds

Explained what causes elliptical orbits

What was Aristotle's contractions to astronomy?

He proposed the idea that the Earth is at the centre of the universe

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He screwed up

He needed help

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