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| Classic
times |
historical
present |
| Thales of Milete |
Founder of the Greek astronomy |
| Plato |
First official descriptions of Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the stars |
| Aristotle |
Believed the planets and the Earth where spheres, and that the Sun,
Moon and other planets were circling around the Earth. |
| Hipparchus |
Founder of the systematic oberservation of the Universe |
| Claudius Ptolomy |
Made a description of the orbits of all known planets, a theory which
lasted for 1500 years |
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| Historical
times |
classic
present |
| Nicholas Copernicus |
Discovered that the earth is rotating around its axes |
| Tycho Brahe |
First astronomer who observed the exact position of various stars.
Built the first astronomical observatory |
| Johann
Kepler |
Eclipse of the planets |
| Galileo
Galilei |
Moons
of Jupiter, the phases of Venus and sun spots |
| Christiaan Huygens |
Mapped out the Martian surface, and discovered the rings of Saturn. |
| Sir Isaac Newton |
Discovered the force of "Gravity" and invented the reflecting telescope. |
| Sir Edmund Halley |
Discovered Halley's comet, and worked with elliptical orbits. |
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| Present
times |
classic
historical |
| Jean Bernard Foucault |
Took the firat photographs of the Sun, and measures the velocity of light. |
| Albert Einstein |
Developed the Theories of Relativity, which changed all ideas of the
Universe, energy, matter and time. |
| Edwin Hubble |
Noticed the expansion of the Universe |
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