Looking to the Stars rb house

Looking to the Stars

• RB House

• December 2, 2010

• CEC WD2

Table of Contents

Aristarchus of Samos

• ~ 310 BC - 230 BC

• ~ Greek

• ~ To discover the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon

• ~ He is seeing the Moon and the Sun from the distances that they are at

• ~ It effects the future by allowing astronauts to get to the Moon and back due to the discovery of the coordinates

Zhang Heng

• ~ Han Dynasty (206 CE- 220 BCE)

• ~ China

• ~ To discover what causes solar and lunar eclipses

• ~ He is seeing the pattern of the lunar and solar eclipses

• ~ It helps take away mystery and clears up all myths about them

Mayans

• ~ 500CE- 900CE

• ~ Central America

• ~ They look up to make a calendar

• ~ They see the planets and the Moon

• ~ It effects our life and helps us keep track of what day it is

Ibn Yunus

• ~Tenth-Eleventh century

• ~Egypt

• ~He was looking up to make tables of lunar eclipses and planetary conjunctions

• ~He was seeing the cycle of the planets and the Moon

• ~It allows people to see the rare and unique events that was accurately calculated

Ali Qushji

• •Fifteenth Century

• •Persia

• •He was looking to study comets

• •He saw that the Earth rotates

• •It lets the astronauts go to the Moon and know that they can't go back in a straight trip back because their station isn't where it was when they left

Nicolaus Copernicus

• ~ 1473-1543

• ~Poland

• ~He was looking up because he was making a model of the solar system

• ~He saw the size and location of the planets then made a model.

• ~It shows us the size and location of the planet

Comparisons

Citations

• "Galileo: the Telescope & the Laws of Dynamics ." Astronomy 161. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2010.

• astronomy, zantine. "Ibn Yunus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2010.

• astronomy, zantine. "Ali Qushji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2010.

Citation cont.

• Shuttleworth, Martyn. "Ancient Mayan Astronomy - History of Astronomy." The Scientific Method, Science, Research and Experiments. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2010. .

• "Aristarchus of Samos." Aristarchus Biography. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2010.

• "Ancient China - Astronomy - History for Kids!." Kidipede - History for Kids - Homework Help for Middle School. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2010.