Lecture 2: Astronomical Numbers

September 20

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Lecture 3: The Starry Night

September 21

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Lecture 4: Measuring the Earth

September 24

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Lecture 5: Mapping Earth & Sky

September 25

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Lecture 6: Annual and Daily Motions

September 26

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Lecture 7: The Four Seasons

September 27

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Lecture 8: The Phases of the Moon

September 28

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Lecture 9: Eclipses of the Sun & Moon

October 1

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Lecture 10: Telling Time

October 2

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Lecture 11: The Calendar

October 3

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Lecture 12: The Wanderers

October 4

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Lecture 13: The Harmony of the Spheres

October 8

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Lecture 14: "The Revolutions" of Nicolaus Copernicus

October 9

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Lecture 15: Tycho and Kepler

October 10

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Lecture 16: The Starry Messenger: Galileo and the Telescope

October 11

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Lecture 17: On the Shoulders of Giants: Newton's Synthesis

October 12

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Lecture 18: The Apple and the Moon: Newtonian Gravitations40

October 15

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Lecture 19: Orbits

October 16

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Lecture 20: Tides

October 17

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Lecture 21: The Rotation and Revolution of the Earth

October 18

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Lecture 22: Light the Messenger

October 22

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Lecture 23: Atoms

October 23

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Lecture 24: Matter and Light

October 24

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Lecture 25: Measuring Light: Spectroscopy

October 25

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Lecture 26: Telescopes

October 26

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Lecture 27: The Earth's Rocks

October 29

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Lecture 28: The Earth's Atmosphere

October 30

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Lecture 29: The Moon

October 31

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Lecture 30: The Family of the Sun

November 1

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Lecture 31: The Origin of the Solar System

November 5

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Lecture 32: Battered Mercury

November 6

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Lecture 33: Venus Unveiled

November 7

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Lecture 34: The Deserts of Mars

November 8

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Lecture 35: Worlds in Comparison

November 9

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Lecture 36: Jupiter and Saturn

November 13

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Lecture 37: Uranus and Neptune

November 14

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Lecture 38: The Moons of Jupiter

November 15

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Lecture 39: The Saturn System

November 16

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Lecture 40: Planetary Rings

November 19

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Lecture 41: Asteroids & Meteorites

November 21

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Lecture 42: Icy Worlds of the Outer Solar System

November 26

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Lecture 43: Comets

November 27

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Lecture 44: Finding Exoplanets

November 28

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Lecture 45: Solar Systems in Comparison

November 29

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Lecture 46: Our Changing View of the Solar System

November 30

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