Astronomy 210
Lecture 5, Sept 1
Fall 2010
Lecture Notes:
pdf file
Because you asked: Eclipse Frequency
Eclipse schedules
for 2010, 2011, and beyond
Greek Cosmology: Geocentric
Aristotle
physical principles
experimental evidence: round earth, no stellar parallax
epicycles:
animation
Ptolemy
enduring geocentrism:
medieval cosmology
Nicholas Copernicus
heliocentric model
retrograde motion explained (
animation
)
Tycho Brahe
nova stella
discovery;
present
view (X-ray vision)
precision astrometry
Johannes Kepler &
Kepler's Laws
Orbits are ellipses
Equal areas in equal times (
animation
, another
animation
)
P
2
=
a
3
solar system orbit viewer
inner solar system objects in real time
Lecture Archive
Brian D. Fields
Last modified: Wed Sep 1 09:23:21 CDT 2010