Tuesday, October 28, 2008



born in 1564 and died in 1642

formulated basic law for falling bodies

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html



born in 1546 and died in 1601

he gave lectures on astronomy to colleges

http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html



born in 1473 and died in 1543

showed the view of earth in daily motion

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html


Henriatta Levitt was born in 1868 and died in 1921

she developed standard photographic measurements


1914 to 2006
got info about radiation belts circling earth

1852 to 1931
career in physics, did stuff with light


born 1502 died 1585

changed the european calender

http://www.answers.com/topic/pope-gregory-xiii


Stephen Hawking

born in 1942

he was a very smart genius

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0370071/

He wrote Cosmos and Billions and Billions born 1934, died 1996 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755981/biohttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755981/bio

Ptolemy was born in 65 A.D. and died in 165 A.D.


Very influental greek


Made the book Almagest









Aristotle was around in the 4th century




His teachings are called the Arganon








http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/aris.htm



Hipparchus 190 to 121 B.CE.

He discovered the precession of the equinoxes





http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Hipparchus.html



























































astronomy

this is hard