Of astronomers Newton, Kepler, Galileo, Copernicus and Tycho what was their general contribution to Science?

Answer 1

Newton - invented Calculus

Kepler - Derived laws for planetary motion

galileo - invented the telescope

copernicus - suggested the earth was not the center of the universe

tycho - i believe he was the first to catalog stars

I am doing these off the top of my head. I cannot be certain they are 100% accurate. Might I suggest searching '(astronomer's name) wiki' ? This will take you to the wiki page on whomever you search and you should find reliable information there. I would suggest verifying everything I've told you.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The one thing I can think of that unites all five men, is the discovery and explanation of the laws of planetary motions.

Copernicus was the first to suggest that the rather odd motions of the planets were explainable if we realized that they (and we) were all orbiting the sun. Tycho Brahe and Kepler were the astronomers who produced the key astronomical data and the math to solidify the Copernican theory. Galileo solidified the Copernican theory with observations of his own (and ended up defending it from attack from the church). And Newton added the concept of gravity as the force that centered it all (including the idea that this was the same force that causes objects to fall to the earth).

Answer 3

Nicholas Copernicus (1473 -1543) was a Polish astronomer, well known for his Copernican theory. His theory stated that sun rest near the center of the universe, and the earth, which spun daily on its axis, revolved annually around the sun

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Galileo

In 1609 he heard that in Holland a spy glass had been invented, and he was inspired to create the first telescope, which was as powerful as a modern day field glass. By December of the same year, he had built another telescop twenty times stronger than the first, which he was able to discovery craters on the moon with, stars in the milky way, and the four largest satellites of Jupiter. He had also observed the phases of Venus by this time. After his great discoveries, he mainly stuck to writing books. In 1613 he published a book about sunspots, 1624 a book called Dialogue on the Tides, which he discusses Ptolemaic and Copernican theories, in which he got himself reprimanded by the Inquisition of Rome.
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Kepler's
discovery of planetary motion using the theory that the ratio of the cube of a planet's distance from the sun and square of the planet's orbital period is a constand and is the same for all of the planets. He also wrote Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae(Epitome of Copernican Astronomy), and Tabulae Rudolfinae(Rudolfine Tables). Epitome was one of the more important of all his books because it held all of his theories and discoveries in one book.
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Tycho Brahe(1546-1601) was a Danish astronomer who became famous by creating precise astronomical measurements of the solar system and more than 700 stars. Before becoming an astronomer, he went to the universities of Copenhagen and Leipzig where he studied philosophy and law.

Yet during his free time was when he studied the stars. One of his greater discoveries was in 1572 when he found a supernova near the Cassiopeia constellation. Right after this, the king of Denmark and Norway, Frederick II, offered funds to Brahe to build a observatory on an island called Hven (now Ven). So Brahe accepted this, and in 1576 built the observatory which is now known as the castel of Uranienborg ("fortress of heavens
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In my opinion; Galileo, Copernicus and Tycho were the astronomers that happened to give more of contribution than the others.

Answer 4

Hi.
If Steven Hawking's book "A Brief History of Time" is to long for you to read, I recommend the newer version titled "A Briefer History of Time".

Answer 5

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