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Astronomy
Undergraduate 1
10/25/2009
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Kepler
 Definition
Used Brahe's observations to get mathematical relation between orbital distance and period of each planet around Sun
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Newton
 Definition
book, Pricipia,

gravity of sun holds solar system together
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Galileo
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telescope pioneer

4 moons of jupiter

phases of venus

supported heliocentric model
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Maxwell
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saturn's rings made of particles
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Huygens
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saturn has flat rings. wrong
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Einstein
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space fabric
mass curves nearby space
predicted bending of starlight
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