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Astronomy Timeline: 2500 BC 310 BC
Astronomy Timeline: 2500 BC 310 BC
Astronomy Timeline: 2500 BC 310 BC
TIMELINE
Stonehenge-Built to predict
2500 BC lunar and solar eclipses.
Aristarchus Dies
230 BC
Ptolemy was born
Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 Proponent of
heliocentrism
Nicolaus Copernicus
1543 Dies
1564
Improved the telescope
Supported that the sun was the
center of the solar system
1571
Believed that all planet orbits
were ellipse and not perfectly
circular.
1601
Telescope is invented
1630
Galileo Galilei Dies
Isaac Newton
1727 Dies