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University of Virginia: How the Greeks Used Geometry to Understand the Stars

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An article explaining how the Greeks were able to use their science and mathematics to predict where astronomical objects such as the Planets could be found in the nighttime sky even though their underlying premise was that the earth did not move ("Geocentric universe").

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Concepts
laws of motion, ptolemy
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crystal spheres, epicycles, history of astronomy, aristarchus, aristotle and astronomy, eudoxus and astronomy, hipparchus, plato and astronomy, university of virginia: how the greeks used geometry to understand the stars, ancient greek science, science
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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