Assignment Title: Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Tycho Brahe
Objective: Compare the Copernican, Ptolemaic, and Tycho Brahe models.
Assignment Instructions:
We now know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, but ancient people followed the evidence of their eyes, believing that the Sun revolved around the Earth. How did our knowledge come about?
Draw a timeline covering the discoveries of Copernicus, Ptolemy, and Tycho Brahe to show how the understanding that the Earth revolves around the Sun came to be accepted and proved.