THE BIRTH OF MODERN

ASTRONOMY
After the death of
Copernicus, three
astronomers made
significant
contributions in
modern astronomy.
 Tycho Brahe Galileo Galilei Johaness Kepler

JOHANEES KEEPLER

A good collector of An experimentalist A mathematician

astronomical data. and a pure theorist.
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 TYCHO BRAHE’S UNIVERSE
*Tycho Brahe was considered as the last
and the greatest astronomer prior to the
inventions of the telescope.
*At the age of 30, he was able to establish his
own astronomical observatory in Hven,
located between Denmark and Sweden, under
the patronage of Denish King Frederick II.
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 TYCHO BRAHE’S UNIVERSE
*In his observatory , he accurately
measured and recorded the positions of
the sun, moon, and the planets for 20 years.
*He then realized that his data did not fit
into the models of Ptolemy and
Copernicus , he proposed his own model of
the universe.
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 TYCHO BRAHE’S UNIVERSE

In his universe,
the sun orbited
Earth , while the
other planets
orbited the sun.

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GALILEO’S ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS

*History had claimed that a refracting telescope

was accidentally invented by Dutch lens maker
Hans Lippershey in 1608.

*Galileo, upon hearing of this invention

without having seen it, made his own
telescope and aimed it at the skies.

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GALILEO’S ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS

The following are some of the things he

saw with his telescope, all of which
greatly contradicted the models of
Ptolemy’s and Aristotle and provided new
data that supported the Copernican
model. These findings were published in
1610.
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The followings are the things Galileo’s saw with his telescope:

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