Revolutionary Astronomers Review

A philosopher that proved the Earth is a sphere & thought it was at the center of the universe.

• William Herschel
• Isaac Newton
• Aristotle
• Nicolaus Copernicus

His model of the Earth-centered universe was the cornerstone of astronomy for 1,500 years

• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Charles Messier
• Galileo Galilei

Began a new era of astronomy when he concluded that the Sun was the center of the universe

• Aristotle
• Isaac Newton
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus

Built an observatory and made the most accurate astronomical observations for more than 20 yrs.

• Giovanni Cassini
• Tycho Brahe
• Hipparchus
• Isaac Newton

Built a telescope and made discoveries which changed astronomy; discovered 4 moons of Jupiter

• Galileo Galilei
• Aristotle
• William Herschel
• Claudius Ptolemy

He showed the laws governing astronomical bodies were the same laws governing motion on Earth

• Isaac Newton
• Charles Messier
• Tycho Brahe
• Hipparchus

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What is in the center of the Heliocentric Model?

• Sun
• Comet 
• Jupiter
• Earth

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He was Brahe's assistant and he announced all planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits

• Einstein
• Hubble
• Ptomely
• Kepler

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discovered Jupiter's four moons

• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Brahe
• Aristotle

Which scientist's evidence about certain stars (Cepheid variable stars) helped Hubble decide galaxies were moving away from us?

• Henrietta Swan Leavitt

• Nicholas Copernicus

• Annie Jump Cannon

• Albert Einstein