ASTR209 - Lecture 5

ASTRONOMY 209 PODCAST by Rene Plume

Jan 23, 201801:11:21Education

In this lecture we begin to discuss the rise of the heliocentric model of the Universe/Solar System in the rennaissance. We describe the Copernican model, Tycho Brahe's observations, and Kepler's use of Brahe's data to c...

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