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LECTURE 2
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lecture title

    Demystifying the Heavens: Tycho, Kepler, Galileo

lecture goals

  • Know what is meant by the Copernican Revolution, both in science and in intellectual history, and understand that it is still going on.
  • Understand that careful observation is crucial to progress in science (Tycho).
  • Understand that the data tell us, not vice versa, how the world is (Kepler, Galileo, to some extent Copernicus).
  • Know what an ellipse is.
  • Be able to use Kepler's Third Law, T² ~ R³.

outline of lecture

    Timeline

    1. Aristotle and Others

    2. Copernicus

    3. Tycho

    4. Kepler

    5. Galileo and Others

poem

In the time when Dendid created all things,
He created the sun,
And the sun is born, and dies, and comes again;
He created the moon,
And the moon is born, and dies, and comes again;
He created the stars,
And the stars are born, and die, and come again;
He created man,
And man is born, and dies, and never comes again.

-- African song

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Please email any questions, comments, or suggestions to Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.

Revised September 1, 1997.


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