Review of Course -- 6
- Early Renaissance
- Copernicus: sun-centered system (early 1500's)
- Brahe: Accurate measurements of positions of planets (late 1500’s)
- Kepler: Uses Brahe’s data - Kepler provides first accurate description of the motions of motion of planets (1609)
- Planets move in elipses with sun at one focus
- Kepler's three Laws for planetary motion
- The earth is just another planet moving around the sun! Profound impact upon our view of the universe!