Mostly calendars and timekeeping [data patterns and recording]
The Greeks develop geometry to help explain it all
The Geocentric Model Ptolemy
How do you distinguish what is scientifically correct?
Ockham 1288-1348 and his razor
“Beyond all doubt”
Copernicus 1543 De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium
Heliocentric theory a simpler explanation of apparent retrograde motion.
1 the orbit
of each planet about the Sun is an ellipse with the Sun at one focus a
2 as a planet moves around its orbit, it sweeps out equal areas in equal times.
3 (orbital period in year)2 = (average distance in AU)3 p2 = a3 a
Testable [and Has it been tested? With what result?]
Superstition and myth (eggs on the equinox)
Its relation to astronomy
