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Voyages of Discovery: Copernicus to the Big Bang - Part I 4 wks
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In 1543, Nicolas Copernicus published, "On the Revolutions of
Heavenly Spheres", which began the first of three revolutions
in cosmology. This is where we begin our four week course--
learning about some of the major players, that brought us into
the 20th Century.
Nicolas Copernicus
o The Ptolemaic System
o The Copernican Principle
Tycho & Kepler
o The Science of Observation
o The Kepler's Three Laws - MU-21
o Harmonies of the World - Cosmos #3
Isaac Newton & the Kepler Problem
o The Kepler Problem - MU-22
o The Rise of the Mechanical Universe
o Inertia (Galileo) - MU-4
Miraculous Year (1905)
o The beginnings of Relativity
o The Beginnings of the Quantum Mechanics
o From Kepler to Einstein - MU-25
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