Early Thinkers- Zac and stevie

  • Nicholas Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1478

    Nicholas Copernicus

    he identfied the concept of a heliocentric solar system in which the sun rather then the earth is center of the solar system
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    The solar system and accurate postions of more then 777 fixed stars
  • galileo galilie
    Feb 15, 1564

    galileo galilie

    Italian scientist and scholar Galileo made pioneering observations that laid the fundation for modern pysics ad astronomy
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    He came up with the law of planetary motion
  • Giovanni Cassini

    Giovanni Cassini

    Discovered four satellites of the plant Saturn and noted the divsion of the rings of Saturn
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    english physicist and mathematician sir Isaac Newton most famous for his law of gravitation was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17t century.
  • Edmand Halley

    Edmand Halley

    Halley was an english asronomer and mathematician who was the first to calculate the orbit of the comet later named after him.
  • Charles Messier

    Charles Messier

    He put together a catolog of over one hundred sky comets this was known as nebulae
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    Herschel discoved the planet uraus and several moons around other gas giants
  • Annie Jump Cannon

    Annie Jump Cannon

    Annie was a pioneering astronomer resposible for the classification of hundreds of thousands of stars
  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein

    Einstein developed the theroy of relativity
  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble

    Edwin revolutionized the field of astrophysics his research helped prove that the universe is expanding and he created a classification system for galaxies hat have been used for several decads
  • Frank Drake

    Frank Drake

    englis admiral sir Francis Drake circumnavigaed the globe and defeat the spanish and was the most renowned seaman of the Elizabethan era.
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    He is know for his research in extraterrestrial life
  • Stephen Hawking

    Stephen Hawking

    He discovered that blackoles cannot decrease in blackholes