who were some scientist that discovered constellations?

Question

I need about 3 scientist.

Answer 1

Random farm people and captains. I don't think that they were discovered by any scientists. they wouldn't need them, anyhoo.
I mean, if you were a captain of the sea, don't you think you would ned constellations to help you find your way? And if you were a farmhold, don't you think you would need constellations to tell you like, what day it is or season or whatever? If you want a specific one, you should Google it.

Answer 2

Punkrock is right -- the important constellations just were handed down from antiquity and can't be attributed. But starting about the 1600 - 1700s with the emergence of modern astronomy and European discovery in the Southern Hemisphere, there was an orgy of constellation-creation. He gives good names.

Astronomers at the time started naming silly new constellations after things like the telescope and microscope. In the 20th century astronomers worldwide agreed to codify the constellations into 88 official ones, whose boundaries embrace the entire sky.

Answer 3

In the early 1500's, a polish scientist named Nicolaus Copernicus decided that a better scheme would be to place the sun at the center of the universe and have all the planets circle it. In 1543, Copernicus wrote that his idea would make it easier to figure out planetary positions. For more than 50 years astronomers argued as to whether he was correct or not.


In 1572, Tycho Brahe, a Danish astronomer found and studied a new bright star eventually it faded. In 1577, Tycho Brahe studied a comet and tried to figure its distance by observing whether it changed its position when viewed differently. In 240 BC, a Greek astronomer in Egypt, Eratosthenes made a surprising discovery. He discovered that when the sun was directly overhead in one city, it caste a shadow in another city 500 miles (800km)to the north

Answer 4

You cannot say that scientists discovered the constellations. They were imaginary figures in the sky imagined by the ancient people. They were probably first imagined by shepherds and common people and not by scientists in ancient Greece.

Answer 5

Gerardus Mercator
Pieter Keyser
Frederick de Hautmann
Johannes Hevelius
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille


The greeks discovered most of them, 48 in total, but the scientists above helped to "fill in the gaps"

Answer 6

Constellations are not discovered, they are observed and imagined. Most of the constellations we recognize today come from astronomers and astrologers of ancent civilizations, like the Chaldeans, the Egyptians, etc.

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Answer 7

Well, that would be my ancestor, Leonasrdfo de Julio Vasquez!! Yes!, You see , my ancestor was a deck hand on the spanish ship, ' El Burrito". One day while cleaning the deck, he was hit on the head with a wooden beam, and exclaimed,' Look the Constellation of asparagus!!!!!!! And that's how ALL the constellations were discovered!!!!!!! This happened in 1264, according to old family records!!!!

Answer 8

Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who formulated the basic law of falling bodies, which he verified by careful measurements. He constructed a telescope with which he studied lunar craters, and discovered four moons revolving around Jupiter, and the milky way. Look him up..hes worth the read!