Astronomy

Vocabulary.
Astronomy:
the study of the universe.

Year:
the time required fot the Earth to orbit onece around
the sun.

Month:
a division of the year that is based on the orbit of the
moon around the Earth.

Day:
the time required for Earth to rotate once on its axis.
Born: c. in Egypt

Died: at about age 78 in

Alexandria, Egypt

Nationality: Greco-Roman

Famous For: Publishing The

Amalgest
Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek
geographer and astronomer,
who worked out a form of
geocentric theory that lasted
for 1400 years. The work he
did, as compared to other
Greek mathematicians, has
caused argument and
discussion.
Ptolomy Theory.
Astronomer Nicolaus
Copernicus was instrumental in
establishing the concept of a
heliocentric solar system, in
which the sun, rather than the
earth, is the center of the solar
system.
Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19, 1473 in
Torun, Poland. Circa 1508, Copernicus developed his
own celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system.
Around 1514, he shared his findings
in the Commentariolus. His second book on the
topic, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, was
banned by the Roman Catholic Church decades after
his May 24, 1543 death in Frombork.