Ancient Greek Astronomers
Across
- 4. Thought the Earth was spherical surrounded by spheres
- 6. Thought the Earth was 63,000 km in diameter
- 7. Believed air manipulated the creation and movement of the universe
- 10. Thought planets sit around an epicenter on a epicycle
- 11. Thought all planets moved along their own spheres
- 12. Rejected Aristarchus' model of the universe for Aristotle's model
Down
- 1. Thought a central flare (not the Sun) was at the center of the universe
- 2. Predicted Solar Eclipses
- 3. Used shadows of sundials to calculate the Earth's diameter
- 5. The first and only Greek to propose a heliocentric universe
- 8. Set the grounds for European belief in the geocentric model
- 9. Thought the Earth was a cylinder