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100
Ptolemy
Geocentric theory; longitude and latitude; no Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, or Kuiper Belt. -
Period: 100 to
Scientific Leaders
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Apr 24, 1473
Copernicus
Came up with heliocentric system, only 6 planets, didn’t
include other moons of other planets, mathematician, scholar, translator, artist. -
Apr 24, 1546
Brahe
Made solar system instruments, observations of super nova, both
sun and earth stationary (center of solar system), no telescope. -
Apr 24, 1546
Galileo
Made telescope famous, believed heliocentric theory, and discovered sun spots, the Sun was in the center, that Jupiter has four moons, and that Venus has phases like the moon. -
Apr 24, 1571
Kepler
Laws of planetary motion and elliptical orbit, mathematician, and astronomer. -
Telescope
Hans Lippershey had invented the first telescope. He was a Dutch eyeglass maker. -
Newton
Invented calculus, 3 laws of motion. Believed heliocentric theory, discovered laws of gravity,
