Jan 1st, 1000 Jan 3rd, 1000 studies of the heavens, he witnessed and

ARISTOTLE-(384-322 BC) PTOLEMY-(AD 140) record two supanovae, which opposed

ptolemys idea that the stars were
Aristotle the Improved Aristotles unchanging.
philosopher, model, making it
designed his model more elaborate by Jan 6th, 1000
from reasoning putting circles within KEPLER-(1571-1630)
ideas, like that the circles. Although
earth was spherical geocentric, the Kepler was a
(calculated by predictions that mathematician
Pythagoras), that the could be made from it were quite accurate. who had his own
earth was at the centre of the universe, and His model lasted the longest of any, views of the
that the sun, moon, and planets all because he had the support of the church. universe- that
revolved around the earth. Believing these planetary orbits
things, he created a geocentric model. His Jan 4th, 1000 were based on
model consisted of an earth centre, with 55 COPERNICUS-(1473-1542) geometric shapes.
concentric spheres rotating around the Copernicus suggested that, similar to Kepler was able to used brahes records
earth, demonstrating the movements of the Aristarchus, the sun was stationary at the for his own research from which he finally
planets and stars. centre of the universe and that all other developed his own heliocentric model. He
bodies revolved around it in circular paths. said that the planets movements around
Jan 2nd, 1000 the sun were elliptical though. He also
ARISTARCHUS-(240 BC) Jan 5th, 1000 believed that the closer the planets were to
BRAHE-(1546-1601) the sun, the faster they orbited. Using a
Aristarcus model of this, he was able to predict
suggested that Brahe plotted all motions of the universe fairly accurately.
because the sun is his observations
much bigger than of the heavens Jan 7th, 1000
the earth, it is the using instruments GALILEI-(1564-1642)
centre of the of his own
universe. So by the design. He was He believed
heliocentric extremely Copernicus
model, he proceeded to his theory of the thorough, so the model, that earth
motions of the stars and the sun, and that predictions he and the other
the earth rotates on its axis once a day. His made were much more accurate than many planets revolve
model was not favoured because it wasnt other methods. His model of the universe around the sun and
detailed enough to make predictions from, was both helio, and geo centric, with the that the other
although it is known today, that he was planets revolving around the sun, and the planets might be
surprisingly close to the truth. sun revolving around the earth. IN his inhabited as well. Galilei was able to make
many observations not yet made, because
of the invention of the telescope. Galilei
made his own telescopes through which he
proved the geocentric model to be
incorrect.
Jan 8th, 1000
NEWTON-(1642-1727)
basic outline of the history of models of
the universeInvestigated and proved his
theory of gravity's existance on earth and
now knowing that the heliocentric model
was the correct one, showed by his own
universal gravitaioal law that the sun being
the centre of the universe could be proved
using mathematics