Ptolemy: Consolidating Knowledge

Copernicus

________ demonstrates that placing the sun at the center of the cosmos rather than Earth makes it far easier to predict the movement of the planets.

Hipparchus

________ generates a catalog of more than 850- star positions and brightnesses.

Mul Apin

A cuneiform tablet where the Babylonian constellations are listed.

Toledo, Spain

The Alfonsine Tables, which list the positions of the sun, moon, and planets based on Ptolemy's theories, are published in ________.

Ptolemy

________ compiled all of the astronomical knowledge available at his time in Amalgest.

Plinth

A massive rectangular stone block with one of its vertical sides perfectly aligned in the north- south plane.

Aristotle

________ argues that the stars are fixed in place and Earth is unmoving.

17th century star map

The ________ makes use of Ptolemaic constellations.

150 CE

Ptolemy’s Almagest, Geography, and Tetrabiblos were written.

the Babylonians

In 12th century BCE, they arranged the stars into constellations.

350 BCE

Aristotle argues that the stars are fixed in place and Earth is unmoving.

135 BCE

Hipparchus generates a catalog of more than 850-star positions and brightnesses.

964 CE

Al-Sufi, a Persian astronomer, updates Ptolemy's star catalog.

1252

The Alfonsine Tables are published in Toledo, Spain.

Alfonsine Tables

These list the positions of the sun, moon, and planets based on Ptolemy's theories

1543

Copernicus demonstrates that placing the sun at the center of the cosmos rather than Earth makes it far easier to predict the movement of the planets.

Amalgest

Ptolemy compiled all of the astronomical knowledge available at his time in _____.

stationary Earth

In Ptolemy's depiction of the solar system, the heavens revolved around a _______ at its center.

northern latitude of about 32°

Everything that could be seen from a __________ was listed in Ptolemy's catalog of 1,022-star positions and 48 constellations in the area of the celestial sphere known to the Greeks.

2 to 42

The number of stars per constellation in the 17th century star map ranges from ________.