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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.



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