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- 3. Allowed for the charting of new stars and the prediction of the orbits of planets.
- 7. The sun is the center of the solar system.
- 9. The Geocentric view was tweaked, but it was the predominant view held by scientists and Christians.
- 11. Made a map of 1,000 stars. They placed them on the surface of what they called a “celestial sphere.”
- 12. The time period in which the heliocentric theory became the dominant theory in science.
- 13. His telescope saw Venus, the moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn (which all supported the heliocentric view).
- 14. Ancient Greeks placed the earth at the center of the solar system.
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- 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. Used Joshua 10:12-13 to support the geocentric view.
- 4. The Roman Catholic who published On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies, a book that showed how flawed the geocentric view was.
- 5. A contemporary of Galileo who compiled a massive amount of data on the motion of planets.
- 6. A series of rules which the planets always followed.
- 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.
- 10. The man who built on Kepler’s Laws to formulate the Universal Law of Gravitation