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Took Babylonians records and began to speculate on the size and shape of the earth
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Greeks
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Watched the night time sky and kept detailed records
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Babylonians
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Student to Plato, tutor to alexander the great. devided the earth into 5 relms
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Aristotle
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Strologist, read horoscopes for a living. Needed a model to make his job easier.
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Ptolemy
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Translated the almaguest into latin
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St. Thomas of Aquinas
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Appraised ptolemy's model and didn't like it. published a book called "de Revolutionibus"
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Copernicus
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Rich Astronomer, took extreamly accurate data for 25 years.
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Tycho Brahe
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Rich Astronomer, took extreamly accurate data for 25 years.
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Tycho Brahe
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tycho's assistant who aquired all his data.
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Johannes Kepler
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Founded modern scientific method. Convicted as a heritic. Made " a dialogue between two cheif world systems"
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Galileo Galilei
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