Important Astronomers

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Aristarchus
Created 1st heliocentric model
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Ptolemy
believed retrograde was caused by epicycles
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Copernicus
reintroduced idea of heliocentric model in 1540s, believed orbits were in perfect circles
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Tycho
recorded the night sky for years, died before he could refute celestial sphere model, hired Kepler
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Kepler
developed laws of Planetary motion
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Galileo
improved the telescope and made observations that disproved geocentricism