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

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

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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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.

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Ptolemy

100  “Equant Point”—an imaginary


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

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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
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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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