EESC 1158 Lecture Notes - Apparent Retrograde Motion, Pope Urban Vii, Retrograde And Prograde Motion

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Galileo and the church: science and religion: early 1600s church condemned the sun-centered theory of the solar. 1960"s united states plan to land on the moon. Begin with astronomical studies of the early greeks (600 bce) Earth was considered to be surrounded by a transparent, hallow sphere. Starts were hung on the celestial sphere, and were carried on a daily trip around the earth i. e the stars rise and set like the sun and moon. But, in spite of the daily motion of the stars, all of the stars remained the same in relative position except for seven stars . These seven objects change their location from day-to-day relative to the fixed background of the rest of the stars in the sky. 5 other planets : mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, saturn. Planet comes from the greek word meaning wanderer . Details of the greek geocentric model of the universe were compiled by claudius.

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