Great Achievements: Astronomy

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In the book by Charles Murray titled Human Accomplishments, the author covers different fields, selecting 20 geniuses in each field. This course will be a continuation from the fall semester. It is a journey from antiquity to the 17th century C.E. We will visit some strange and fascinating places to learn of some achievers of astonomy: Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton and others not as well known. We will look at their accomplishments, environments and personal lives. We’ll surface some interesting associated areas such as witchcraft (Kepler’s mother), alchemy (Tycho and Newton), and the Inquisition (Galileo). The English historian Denys Winstanley stated that “Nothing is more unfair than to judge men of the past by the ideas of the present.” So, we’ll try to “walk a mile in their shoes". The goal of this course is ultimately to discover what these people achieved in astronomy, and why their achievements were so great. Without their work we would still be groping in the dark.

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