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Astronomy 171 - Winter Quarter 2007
Solar System Astronomy

Prof. Paul Martini - MTWRF 9:30-10:18pm - 0050 Scott Laboratory

Unit 3: Rise of Modern Astronomy
Lecture 12: Greek Astronomy [Jan 22]
Lecture 13: Copernican Revolution [Jan 23]
Lecture 14: Brahe and Kepler [Jan 24]
Lecture 15: Galileo [Jan 25]
Lecture 16: Newton [Jan 26]
Related Readings in Universe
Chapter 3-6
Chapter 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5, 4-6
Web links for Further Exploration in Unit 3
There is an excellent online version of the Library of Congress' exhibit on the Vatican Library. I recommend these pages on Greek Astronomy and Greek Mathematics.
The Galileo Project contains a wealth of information about Galileo, as well as many of his contemporaries.
Here are short, biographical sketches of Tycho Brahe and Isaac Newton.

The links to the lectures reproduce the electronic overheads shown in class for each of the lectures. In some cases they have additional text and links covering supplemental material or graphics. Online lecture notes are made available starting the week in which the lectures occur, but some notes may not be accessible until later in the week if I am having problems translating them into a web-accessible form.

Please feel free to print out copies of these lecture outlines in advance of class, so you can follow along with the lecture. Many students find this helps them listen without the pressure of taking down detailed notes of their own, but while still making additional notes in the margins to highlight particularly emphasized points.

See A Note about Graphics to learn why some of the graphics shown in the lectures are not reproduced with these notes.

Students looking to explore these topics further using the Internet might want to look at Prof. Richard Pogge's Selected Astronomical Internet Links for this unit.

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Updated: 2007 January 20
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