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Slide 1: Big Bang

Slide 2: Stonehenge

Slide 3: Aristotle

Slide 4: Aristarchus

Slide 5: Eratosthenes

Slide 6: Hipparchus

Slide 7: Ptolemy

Slide 8: Nicholas Copernicus

Slide 9: Tycho Brahe

Slide 10: Galileo Galilei

Slide 11: Johannes Kepler

Slide 12: Giovanni Cassini

Slide 13: Christian Huygens

Slide 14: Sir Isaac Newton

Slide 15: Albert Eistein

Describes development of the 

universe

States that the universe is 13.77 

billion years old

Widely tested scientific theory

                    (Beginning of the known universe)

Moved into horseshoe shape around 1500 B.C.

Greek philosopher

Student of Plato

Taught Alexander 

The Great

Aristotle is one of 

the most important 

founding figures in 

Western philosophy

Greek astronomer and 

mathematician

Made first known model 

of sun being center of 

our universe

Theory rejected in favor 

of Aristotle and Ptolemy's 

geocentric theories

Invented the discipline of 

geography

First person to calculate 

circumference of the Earth

Calculated Earths tilt on its axis 

Possibly accurately calculated 

Earths distance from the sun and 

invented the leap day

"ALL HAIL THE MAGIC CONCH 

LEAF!"- Patrick Star

Greek astronomer, geographer, and 

mathematician

He was the first whose quantitative 

and accurate models for the 

motion of the sun and moon 

survive

Few reliable 

details of his 

life are 

known

A greek mathematician, 

astronomer, geographer, 

astrologer

Renaissance 

mathematician 

and astronmer

Formulated 

heliocentric 

model of the 

universe 

placing the 

sun at the 

center

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