Historical Developments in Our Understanding

Theme Number 3: Historical Developments in Our Understanding

1. The Relative Distances and Sizes of the Sun and Moon (Notes)

2. Further Considerations: Planets and Stars (Notes)

3. Stellar Parallax: The Astronomical Chicken (Notes)

4. Stonehenge (Notes)

  Stonehenge (ppt)

5. The Pyramids (Notes)

   The Pyramids (ppt)

6. Greek Cosmology (Notes)

Greek Cosmology (ppt)

7. Copernicus Suggests a Heliocentric Cosmology (Notes)

    Revolutionary Times (ppt)

8. Tycho Brahe, the Master Observer (Notes)

9. Kepler the Mystic (Notes)