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Historical Astronomy

Grades 4 - 12

Length: approximately 45 minutes
Format: Live presentation
Price: $3.50 per person

Over the thousands of years that people have looked at the sky, many theories have arisen to explain what they were seeing. Long before Copernicus and Galileo, other people had put forth their own ideas of how the universe worked. This live program looks at a handful of these people, what they thought, and how all of these ideas moved us toward our current understanding of the universe.


Michigan Curriculum Framework Guidelines
"Historical (Ancient) Astronomy"
Science IV.3 Motion of objects - Sun, earth, Moon. How things around us move, or appear to move. Origins of ideas about motion.
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