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Era · 1543 CE – 1700 CE

The Scientific Revolution

History of Astronomy

Overview

In little more than a century, astronomy was remade. The telescope opened the sky, Kepler found that planets move in ellipses, Galileo turned observation into evidence, and Newton's universal gravitation united the heavens and the Earth under one law.

Astronomers

Discoveries

Publications

Knowledge connections

Sources & references

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

  • BritannicaEncyclopaedia Britannica

    General reference for the history of astronomy, biographies, and cultural context.