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solarsystem assignment

  • 340 BC Aristotle
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    340 BC Aristotle

    Suggested the theory that the earth was in the middle of the solar system and all the planets and the sun orbited it
  • 200 BC Aristarchus of Samos
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    200 BC Aristarchus of Samos

    the first recorded person to have sugested that the earth orbited the sun
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus suggested the theory of the earth and all other planets orbited the sun
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe majorly improved astronomical observation and made a table of refractions, which allowed a major improvement in the knowlodge of planets
  • Galileo Galilei
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    one of the most well known scientists to day, he argued with the church over the solar system's structure and how the sun was in the middle and he also advanced the technology of the telescope
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler laid the foundation of modern optics and he is well known for his three laws of planetary movement which showed how our planets move around the sun
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Newton was the main founder of calculus, optics, physics and suggested that planets had gravity, which told scidentist about tides