history of astronomy

  • ptolemy
    140

    ptolemy

    Wrote a book about astronomy called ptolemaic theary.
  • ptolemaic
    Jun 1, 1500

    ptolemaic

    Brahe thought that the sun and the moon revolved around the earth.
  • copernicus
    Jun 1, 1543

    copernicus

    His theary was the sun was the center of the univers.
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    Galileo was the first people to use a telescope.
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Showed that all objects in the universe attract each other through gravitational force.
  • James Clerk Maxwell

    James Clerk Maxwell

    James proved that visible light is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble proved that other galoxies existed beyond the edge of the milky Way.