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1. The History of Astronomy
3. Mercury and Venus near Sun
4. Ptolemys System
5. Aristotles Physics
6. Ptolemy gets tricky
10. Why Ptolemy needs Epicycles:
11. Retrograde Motion & Brightness
12. But why is the planet Always brighter at opposition?
13. Mercury and Venus near Sun
14. Ptolemy gets even trickier!!
15. Arabic Astronomy
16. Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
17. The Renaissance 1300s-1500s
18. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543)
19. A new Day
20. Copernicuss issues with Ptolemy
21. Lets put the Earth on an Epicycle
22. Lets put the Earth on an Epicycle
24. Retrograde Motion & Brightness
27. Copernicus Invents New Time
28. Copernicus Invents New Time
29. Copernicus measures distances to Inner Planets
30. Copernicus measures distances to Outer Planets
31. Good & Bad
32. Its still pretty tricky
33. Stellar Parallax
34. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
36. Brahes Universe
37. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
38. Proof #1: the Moon
39. Proof #2: Jupiters Moons
40. Ptolemy
41. Ptolemys Phases of Venus
44. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
47. #3: The square of the orbital period is proportional to the cube of the average orbital radius
48. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
49. Isaac Newton (1642-1727)