Tuesday, April 27, 2021

FAMOUS ASTRONOMERS


Name

Date of birth

Main thinking

Galileo Galilei



Galileo Galilei

Birth: 15th February 1564

Dead: 08th January 1642 (72 years old)

Galileo makes better telescopes. He makes the law of the movement. And he support the revolution of Copernicus

Nicolás Copernicus





Nicolás Copernicus

Birth19th February 1473

Dead: 24th May 1543 (70 years old)

Develop the heliocentric theory: he discovered that the Earth evolved around the Sun and not invers, as was believed in his time. Discover that the Earth rotated completely on itself every 24 hours

Charles Messier





Charles Messier

Dead

Birth: 26th July 1730

Dead: 12th of  April 1817 (87 years old)

Wen he was looking for the comet Haley, for a error he discovers the crab nebula.

William Herschel



William Herschel

Birth: 15th November 1738 

Dead: 25th August 1822 (84 years old)

Mathematicians from the Royal Society concluded that Herschel haddiscovered a new planet, the first not visible to the naked eye and farther from the Sun than Saturn. He discovered around 2,500 nebulas and galaxies.

Giovanni Domenico Cassini



Giovanni Domenico

Cassini

Birth: 8 July 1625

Dead: 14 of september of 1712 (87 years old)

Discovered the rotational motion of Jupiter. He calculated the rotation periods of Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. His most important achievement was calculating the distance between the Earth and the Sun.And he calculate the distance of the Earth and Mart.


  


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