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150
Ptolemy described an Earth centred view of our Solar System
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May 6, 1364
Jagiellonian University established (Copernicus worked from here)
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Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Period: May 8, 1480 to Apr 27, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan
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May 6, 1514
Copernicus described a Sun centerev view of our Solar System
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May 6, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan was the first person credited with circumnavigating the globe, proving that the Earth is spherical
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Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
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Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Johannes Kepler
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May 6, 1577
Tycho Brahe described comets as objects which orbit the sun in the same way as planets
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Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for suggesting that the universe contained alien worlds
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Kepler observed a Supernova
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Hans Lippershey built the earliest known telescope
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Galileo first used his telescope to observe the night sky, discovering the moons of Jupiter
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Jeremiah Horrocks was the first person to observe a transit of Venus across the Sun
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Period: to
Issac Newton
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Newton first theorised about the laws of Gravity
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Sir Edmund Halley observed the transit of Halley's comet
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James Gregory and Issac Newton estimated the distance to the nearest stars as hundreds of times further away than the Sun
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The return of Halley's comet at the time predicted by Newton and Halley confirmed the nature of cometary orbits
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William Herschel announced the discovery of the planet Uranus
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A new planet (Ceres) was discovered but was later found to be the first Asteroid ever discovered
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Antarctica was first officially sighted
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Friedrich Bessel proved that the stars are a vast distance apart
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Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, describing the process of evolution
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Einstein first published his theories about the universe
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The largest telescope to date observed hundreds of different galaxies
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Edwin Hubble observed individual stars in another galaxy using a telescope
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Harwin Shapely proved that our Solar System lies at the edge of the Milky Way, not at the centre
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Edwin Hubble announced that the universe is exapnding, leading to the theory of the Big Bang
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Period: to
Neil Armstrong
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Period: to
Yuri Gagarin
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Fred Hoyle introduced the phrase 'Big Bang'
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The satellite Sputnik was launched giving birth to the space age
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Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space
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The crew of Apollo 8 took the first images of Earthrise
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first two people to step foot upon the Moon
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Bernard Oliver proposed that there could be thousands of civilisations in the universe
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched capturing images of a larger universe than ever seen before
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Queloz and Mayor proved the existence of a planet orbiting another star
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Period: to 170
Ptolemy
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Mars Odyssey began its journey to Mars
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Another galaxy discovered (Andromeda)