NATS 1740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Star Chart, Escape Velocity, Robert Bellarmine

• School: York University
• Department: Natural Science
• Course: NATS 1740
• Professor: Tatiana Paulin

Document Summary

Stonehenge, england: the ancient site in england may have served as an observatory (around 1550 bce) Babylon: babylonians were some of the most meticulous record keepers, recorded detailed observations of the visible planets, observed and recorded a solar eclipse (763 bce) China: the earliest known record of a supernova explosion in 1400 bce, another supernova explosion recorded in 1054 ce, anasazi (new mexico, usa) may have recorded this event as well. Astronomy from 900 bce to 0 ce: the greeks were among the rst to develop models to explain what they observed in the universe. Thales of miletus: correctly predicted a solar eclipse. Pythagoras: suggested that earth is a sphere and not at. Astronomy from 0 ce to 1500 ce: knowledge of astronomy expanded with the contributions of astronomers from greece, the. Alexander the great: founded the city of alexandria in egypt. Hypatia: a female astronomer and mathematician, was director of the observatory in alexandria.