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Pythagoras
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believed earth was a perfect sphere
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Aristotle
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thought planets moved different from stars and thought of geocentric model
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Nicholas Copernicus
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identified heliocentric system and made scientific method of invention
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Kepler
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orbit of planets are ellipses and unification of astronomy and physics
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Galileo
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turned toy into telescope and discovered sunspots. Considered controversial
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4 moons of Jupiter
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Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede
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What wavelength is longest?
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Radio waves
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Refracting telescopes
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has a curved objective lenses that gathers light and focuses to form image
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Reflecting Telescope
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had a curved mirror, image comes to focus in front of mirror
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