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TODAY: From The Sun’s Perspective: Aristarchus
Occam’s RazorThe Copernican Theory
Giordano BrunoBrahe and Kepler
Kepler’s 3 Laws of Planetary Motion
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THE HELIOCENTRIC SYSTEM OF ARISTARCHUS We have no written record of this system by Aristarchus himself.--all his works (except the one mentioned above) were lost when the library in Alexandria was burned.
Written accounts of this system are found in "The Sand Reckoner" by Archimedes (287-212 BC) and "On the Face of the Moon Disc" by Plutarch (46-120 AD).
Features: 1. Planets orbit the sun, explaining retrograde motion 2. stellar parallax not seen because stars are at great distance.
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William of Occam ~1200 AD
OCCAM’S RAZOR—a simpler workable theory is a better one.
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Nicolas Copernicus--De Revolutionibus--1543
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Features of his heliocentric model:
1. Planets still on spheres, but centered on sun.2. Stars still on a sphere, but more distant than
in Ptolemy's model.3. Planets in proper order from sun.4. Planetary distances calculated--close to
modern values.
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Planetary Distance (in AU):Copernicus vs Modern
Mercury 0.38 0.387Venus 0.72 0.723Earth 1.00 1.000Mars 1.52 1.524Jupiter 5.2 5.203Saturn 9.2 9.539
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Giordano Bruno--burned at stake in 1590--Universe is infinite!--Stars are suns with planets and beings on them.
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Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler
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Tycho Brahe--1546-1601--Observed planetsvery accurately--found orbits--especially Mars--were not circular as Copernicus still held.
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Brahe’s Observatory at Uraniborg, Denmark
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Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)--Found the trueshape and motions of planets about the sun fromBrahe's data.
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Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion:1. Planets move in elliptical orbits with the sunas a focus.2. A line from the planet to the sun sweeps outequal areas in equal times. Thus planets andcomets move more slowly farther from the sun.3. P2= a3. P = planetary period--time for 1revolution. a = avg. distance from sun =semimajor axis (in AU)
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Kepler’s First Law: Planets move in ellipses.
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Kepler’s 3rd LawP = period, a = avg dist. to sun = semi-major axis.
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Eccentricity: distance between foci/widest dist.
Planetary orbit eccentricities—how stretched is orbit?
Mercury .206
Venus .0068
Earth .0167
Mars .0934
Jupiter .0485
Saturn .0556
Uranus .0472
Neptune .0086
Pluto .25