Thursday, February 17, 2011

SCIENTISTS ( the EVERGLOWING STARS of the world )

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS (POLISH ASTRONOMER):
*BORN ON FEB'19TH,1473.

* KNOWN AS FATHER OF MODERN  ASTRONOMY .

*HE PROPOSED THAT EARTH AND THE OTHER PLANETS REVOLVE AROUND THE SUN ( i.e.HELIOCENTRIC THEORY).

GEOCENTRIC THEORY

PTOLEMY
 *HIS THEORY DISPROVED THE THEORY OF PTOLEMY, WHO SAID THAT ALL THE PLANETS AND SUN REVOLVE AROUND EARTH (i.e. GEOCENTRIC THEORY).

GALILEO'S MOONS

TYCHO BRAHE

GALILEO GALILEI



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*THE COPERNICIAN THEORY WAS NOT ACCEPTED BY SOME ASTRONOMERS LIKE TYCHO BRAHE ( A DANISH ASTRONOMER), BUT HIS IDEA WAS PROVED BY GALILEO'S WORKS ON JUPITER'S MOONS (IO,CALLISTO,GANYMEDE AND EUROPA) WHICH ORBITS JUPITER AND KEPLER'S WORKS ON ELLIPTICAL ORBIT.


KEPLER
                                              

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