The History of Astronomy

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Across
  1. 3. Allowed for the charting of new stars and the prediction of the orbits of planets.
  2. 7. The sun is the center of the solar system.
  3. 9. The Geocentric view was tweaked, but it was the predominant view held by scientists and Christians.
  4. 11. Made a map of 1,000 stars. They placed them on the surface of what they called a “celestial sphere.”
  5. 12. The time period in which the heliocentric theory became the dominant theory in science.
  6. 13. His telescope saw Venus, the moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn (which all supported the heliocentric view).
  7. 14. Ancient Greeks placed the earth at the center of the solar system.
Down
  1. 1. Ancient calendars that were created, based on the appearance of the moon. People realized they could use the things in the sky to keep track of dates and time.
  2. 2. Used Joshua 10:12-13 to support the geocentric view.
  3. 4. The Roman Catholic who published On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies, a book that showed how flawed the geocentric view was.
  4. 5. A contemporary of Galileo who compiled a massive amount of data on the motion of planets.
  5. 6. A series of rules which the planets always followed.
  6. 8. He publicly denied his belief that the Copernican system was correct, because he didn’t want to be excommunicated from the Roman Catholic church.
  7. 10. The man who built on Kepler’s Laws to formulate the Universal Law of Gravitation