The Astronomers Crossword
Across
- 1. Lost the bridge of his nose in a sword fight over an argument
- 4. The person who developed the laws of planetary motion
- 6. Created the earliest description of the workings of the Solar System
- 8. An early model of the solar system that placed the sun in the center
- 9. Calculated that 2 separate comets recorded at 76-year intervals were the same
- 11. He was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model
- 12. This person created the celestial sphere
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- 2. Discovered the planet Uranus in 1781
- 3. An early model of the solar system with Earth at the center
- 5. This civilization created many new devices for observing the sky
- 7. The first person to use a telescope to observe the sky
- 10. This astronomer developed the theory of universal gravitation