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Short Description: Galileo and the Telescope. Michael Fowler, UVa Physics ... was Galileo's refinement and clever use of the telescope that persuaded people that the ...
Content Inside: previous index next Galileo and the Telescope Michael Fowler, UVa Physics Copernicus Challenges Ptolemy’s Scheme Ptolemy’s picture of the solar system was almost fully accepted for the next fourteen hundred years, to be challenged by Copernicus (real name: Nicolaus Koppernigk) a mathematician and astronomer with a Polish father and a German mother, in 1530. Copernicus’ picture of the solar system had the sun at the center, and the earth went around it, as did the other planets. We show here the picture from his original publication. Notice that the only exception to the rule that everything goes around the sun is the moon, which continues to go around Document Outline
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