NICOLAUS COPERNICUS:XVI CENTURY EUROPE

SCIENCE: ASTRONOMY

Content & Language Integrated Unit (CLIL) 2018/19IES VEGA DE ATARFE (GRANADA)

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NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

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NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

RENAISSANCE:16th Century Europe

TYCHO BRAHE

JOHANNES KEPLER

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#/media/File:Tycho_Brahe.JPG Danish nobleman and astronomer

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko%C5%82aj_Kopernik#/media/ File:Nicolaus_Copernicus._Reproduction_of_line_engraving.jpg Polish mathematician and astronomer

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Johannes_Kepler_1610.jpg German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer

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For Ptolemy, our planet is the centre of the universe,so the planets and the sun orbit Earth

For Aristotles,the Earth was a sphere made of earth, fire and water

Anaximander thought the Earth was a floating cylinder surrounded by water

(610-546 Before Christ)

Ptolomeo,Greco-Roman

So, what did people believe 2500 years ago? ...

(100 – 170)

Anaximander of Miletus,Greek

(384–322 Before Christ)

Aristotle,Greek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle With him, things took a more scientific turn, based on observation and logical deduction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaximander#Cosmology He is often called the "Father of Cosmology" and founder of astronomy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy He established the model of a geocentric universe

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How much do you know about this astronomer?

Read the questions and click on the UFO with the right answer

Nicolaus Copernicus

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Copernicus's heliocentric view states that ...

The center of the universe changes with time

The center of the universe varies constantly

The center of the universe is near the sun

The sun, not the Earth, is the center of the universe and all planets, including the Earth, orbit it in circles.

The center of the universe is the Earth

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Copernicus said that the distance between the Earth and the sun ...

is very small compared to the distance to the stars

can't be calculated

is equal to the distence to the stars

is bigger than the distance to the stars

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Because the Earth rotates on its own axis ...

it seems that there is a daily rotation of the stars

the stars rotate too

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it seems that the stars don't move

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The annual cycle of movements that results in the four seasons (spring summer,autumn and winter) happens because ...

both the sun and the Earth rotate

the Earth is orbiting the sun

the sun orbits the Earth

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Like Aristotle and Ptolomeo before him, Copernicus thought that the movement of the planets was in ...

ellipsis

circles

it varies

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Copernicus couldn't defend his ideas openly: "The Earth is not the centre of the universe,it is just another planet orbiting the sun" WHY?

The Church believed the Earth didn't move and could condemn him to death

He was a coward and didn't dare tell the truth

He was not completely sure of this theory.

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HELIOCENTRIC THEORY

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