Ancient Astronomers

  • 500 BCE

    Eratosthenes

    He found the circumference of the earth
  • 150 BCE

    Claudius Ptolemy

    He combined the movement of the stars with mathematics to predict movements of the planets. He also thought the earth was the center of the universe.
  • 1500

    copernicus

    his heliocentric system put the sun in the center of the solar system where it should be.
  • Tycho Brahe

    He thought that the earth was at the center of universe
  • Johannes Kepler

    made the kepler laws
  • Sir Issac Newton

    he created newtons laws
  • Albert Einstein

    He said that laws of physics were the same throughout the universe.