CHAPTER 4 TIMELINE
YOU SHOULD ADD THE FOLLOWING TO YOUR TIMELINE FROM CHAPTER 4
YOUR TIMELINE SHOULD BE TAPED INTO THE BACK COVER OF YOUR COMPOSITION BOOK.
BEFORE THE QUIZ DAY
WE DID THESE IN CLASS -- IF YOU WERE ABSENT OR DID NOT FINISH
8000BC: The Maya make astronomical constructions
4000BC: Egyptians institute the 365 day calendar
2680 BC: The Great Pyramid at Giza completed.
2300BC: Chinese astronomers start to observe the sky
1860 BC: The Construction of Stonehenge.
1800BC: Babylonians begin to keep observational records
1600BC: Chaldean astronomers identify the zodiac
763BC: Solar eclipse observed and recorded by Babylonians
624BC: Thales of Miletus was born.
585BC: Thales of Miletus predicted a solar eclipse.
547BC: Thales of Miletus died.
500BC: Pythagoras suggests that the Earth is a sphere and not flat, as had been previously assumed
THESE SHOULD BE ADDED BEFORE THE DAY OF CHAPTER 4 QUIZ
1543: Copernicus publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Caoelestium (The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), the theory that earth revolves around the sun, while on his deathbed.
1546: Tycho Brahe born in Denmark.
1552: Books on Geography and Astronomy are burned in England because people thought they contained magic.
1564: Galileo Galilei born in Italy.
1572: Tycho Brahe observes a supernova in Cassiopeia constellation.
1608: Hans Lippershey a Dutch spectacle maker invents the telescope
1609: Galileo Galilei improves the telescope.
1609: Kepler publishes Brahe's calculation of the orbit of Mars. Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion.
1632: Galileo publishes Dialogo sopra I due massimi sistemi del mondo (The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , supporting Copernicus' view that the planets circled the sun.
1633: Inquisition forces Galileo to recant his belief in Copernican theory.
1642: Galileo dies.