Earth Sciences 1086F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aurora, Spectroscopy, Spheroid
19 Dec 2017
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Our sun is surrounded by 8 major planets and 3 dwarf planets. In chapter 3, we learned about the nebular hypothesis how star-planet systems form. Geocentric model earth is at the centre of the solar system. Heliocentric model sun is at the centre of the solar system. Pythagoras/plato: an early model of our solar system was developed somewhere around 530 bc by. Aristarchus: he was on the right track, but was not quite there yet! He was pleased with his model, so he stopped working on it. Ptolemy: he believed in the geocentric model. Scientific method" since it could not predict events accurately, but it was never thrown out because it was the model that the catholic church promoted, so it stayed for 1,400 years! Copernicus ( middle europeans": polish scientist who studied law and medicine, decided to play around with.
