Metric System

Astronomy

Space Science

Poll

On a scale of 1-5 how excited are you to learn about space?

• 1 not

• 2 a bit

• 3 yeah, sure, bring it on

• 4 oh yeah!

• 5 I'm so excited I could faint

Ancient Astronomy

• Humans have been curious about space ever since we first looked up in the sky.

When did the science of Astronomy begin?

• The earliest recorded astronomical observations date back to 1,600 BC--this bronze disc shows the sun and crescent moon, as well as the Pleiades star cluster

• Ancient Babelonians, Chinese, Central Americans, and Northern European cultures also studied the heavens

Ancient Astronomy

• Ancient Babelonians, Chinese, Central Americans, and Northern European cultures also studied the heavens

• Many of them used movements and phenomena in the sky to create calendars and included astronomy into their religions and culture

Ancient Greeks

• The highlights of ancient astronomy

  were almost all accomplishments of the Greeks

Astronomers to Study

• Thales

• Pythagorus

• Philolaus

• Aristotle -Ulugh Beg 

• Heraclides -Claudius Ptolemy

• Aristarchus of Samos  -Hipparchus

• Copernicus -Eratosthenes