Astronomers

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  • 476

    Aryabhata

    476 AD
    Aryabhata was a mathemetition and astronemer.
    He practiced on planetry motions and also the terrestrial planets
  • Period: 476 to

    476

  • Period: 476 to

    Astronomers

  • Jan 1, 1106

    Petrus Alphonsi

    He was a Jewish Astronomer that worked mostly on the Eclipses
  • Jun 1, 1188

    Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Zarquli

    He made a complex diamgram of mercury
  • Jan 1, 1231

    Guo Shoujing

    Guo ShouGing was a mathemetician and an astronomer that discovered the way to find north by the help of stars
  • Jan 1, 1437

    Nicholas Copernicus

    Nicholas the astronomer made a model of a Sun which then he suggested that the Sun was the middle of the solar system
  • Jan 1, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei discover and proved that the Earth was no in the middle and was like all the other planets orbiting the Sun.

  • Al Battani

    858AD
    He composed a work on astronomy, with tables, containing his own observations of the sun and moon and a more accurate description.

  • Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

    He also made the earliest recorded observation of the Andromeda Galaxy in 986 AD. These were the first galaxies other than the Milky Way to be observed from Earth.
    He also was the one of the 9 famous Muslim astronomer.