Astronomy Timeline: 2500 BC 310 BC

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ASTRONOMY

TIMELINE

Stonehenge-Built to predict
2500 BC lunar and solar eclipses.

Aristarchus was born


310 BC First to propose the
heliocentric model

Aristarchus Dies

230 BC
Ptolemy was born

90 AD Believed that the earth is


the center of our universe
Geocentric Model
Ptolemy Dies
168 AD

Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 Proponent of
heliocentrism

Nicolaus Copernicus

1543 Dies

Tycho Brahe was born

1546 First competent mind in


modern astronomy
Galileo Galilei was born

1564
Improved the telescope
Supported that the sun was the
center of the solar system

Johannes Kepler was born

1571
Believed that all planet orbits
were ellipse and not perfectly
circular.

Tycho Brahe Dies

1601
Telescope is invented

1608 Invented by Hans


Lipperhey
Johannes Kepler Dies

1630
Galileo Galilei Dies

1642 Isaac Newton was born


Contributed to astronomy
with the law of gravity.

Isaac Newton
1727 Dies

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