Outline

History of Astronomy	23
1.1Prehistoric Astronomy	24
The Celestial Sphere	25
Constellations	25
Motions of the Sun and Stars	27
Daily or Diurnal Motion	27
Annual Motion	28
The Ecliptic	28
The Seasons	30
The Ecliptic's Tilt	31
Solstices and Equinoxes	32
The Planets and the Zodiac	34
The Moon	36
Eclipses	38
1.2Early Ideas of the HeavensClassical Astronomy	39
The Shape of the Earth	39
The Size of the Earth	40
Distance and Size of the Sun and Moon	41
Extending Our Reach: Measuring the Diameter of Astronomical Objects	42
The Motion of the Planets	45
Ptolemy	45
Islamic Contributions	46
Asian Contributions	46
1.3Astronomy in the Renaissance	46
Copernicus	46
Tycho and Kepler	48
Galileo	51
1.4Isaac Newton and the Birth of Astrophysics	53
1.5The Growth of Astrophysics	54
New Discoveries	54
New Technologies	54
The Nature of Matter and Heat	54
The Kelvin Temperature Scale	55
Projects	58

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