You are going to explore the lives of some famous astronomers. You will have ONE day to do this, so think carefully about your goals and how you divide and conquer. The project is due at the beginning of class on Monday, but we will be doing other things tomorrow.
You must find the following:
- are they heliocentric or geocentric?
- when is the time period in which they lived?
- was politics, religion, or science their realm of work?
- who paid for their work as astronomers?
- did they have access to telescopes?
- why do they matter?
First, check the book in the front (they are paper and battered) and summarize, including the page #. Then, confirm it with a web reference (preferably from the site we used yesterday), and find a picture. Finally, create a Google presentation that compares the similarities and differences of the astronomers.
You must include all the astronomers marked with a *, plus 2 others in your presentation, for a total of 9.
- Aristotle
- Galileo*
- Hipparchus
- Aristarchus
- Eratosthenes
- Tycho Brahe*
- Pope Gregory*
- Nicholas Copernicus*
- Johannes Kepler*
- Isaac Newton*
- Ptolemy
- Albert Einstein
- Stephen Hawking
- Annie Cannon
- James Van Allen
- Carl Sagan
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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