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Polish astronomer
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Examine Aristotle's model of the solar system and note its failure to explain phenomena like retrograde motion
Aristotle's theory of the solar system.
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Study how Ptolemy tried to use deferents and epicycles to explain retrograde motion
Ptolemy's theory of the solar system.
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See how Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric model replaced Aristotle's and Ptolemy's geocentric models
Copernicus's theory of the solar system.
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Learn about solar-system theories by Aristotle, Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Johannes Kepler
Discussion of four attempts to explain the structure of the solar system, from Aristotle...
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus, 1580, from the Town Hall in Toruń, Poland; in the...
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Engraving from Christoph Hartknoch's book Alt- und neues Preussen (1684;...
Courtesy of the Joseph Regenstein Library, The University of Chicago
Christian Aristotelian cosmos
Representation of the Christian Aristotelian cosmos, engraving from Peter Apian's...
Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago
Nicolaus Copernicus: heliocentric system
Engraving of the solar system from Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium...
The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Astronomers Monument
Astronomers Monument, concrete sculpture featuring six astronomers by Arnold...
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Copernicus
Copernicus, 17th-century copy of a 16th-century self-portrait; in the Jagiellonian...
Courtesy of the Museum of Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
frontispiece to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican
Frontispiece to Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic...
Courtesy of the Joseph Regenstein Library, The University of Chicago
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