Sunday, January 15, 2012

Cultural Astronomy (Groups of 2 or 3)

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 Thursday.

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 and summarize, including the page #. Then, confirm it with a web reference, and find a picture. Finally, create a Linoit or 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 8.


  1. Aristotle
  2. Galileo*
  3. Hipparchus
  4. Eratosthenes
  5. Tycho Brahe*
  6. Pope Gregory*
  7. Copernicus*
  8. Kepler*
  9. Newton*
  10. Ptolemy
  11. Einstein
  12. Hawking
  13. Annie Cannon
  14. Van Allen

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