Summary of the Advanced Astronomy of Classical Greece

• Science of Classical Greece 5th - 3rd Centuries B.C.

  • Among many achievements:
    • Spherical Earth
    • Celestial Sphere of stars
    • Description of motion of sun, moon
  • Actual measurements of the sizes & distances of the earth, moon & sun

• Culmination in the work of Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) and others ---- and finally Ptolomy (150 AD)

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