Quiz

1. What does the universe look like from Earth?
2. Why was planetary motion so hard to explain?
3. Why did the ancient Greeks reject the real explanation for planetary motion?
4. In what ways do all humans use scientific thinking?
5. How did astronomical observations benefit ancient societies?
6. What did ancient civilizations achieve in astronomy?
7. Why does modern science trace its roots to the Greeks?
8. How did the Greeks explain planetary motion?
9. How did Islamic scientists preserve and extend Greek science?
10. When was Nicolaus Copernicus born? 

You can use Wikipedia.

1. We see the moon, the Sun, and a few planets with the naked eye. A few thousand stars in the Milky Way. With telescopes, some Earth bound, and some in space, we see hundreds of billions of Galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars.
2. Retrograde motion, and parallax did not allow the current view we have of planets now.
3. Parallax
4. Trial and error is part of daily life
5. Agriculture, religion, and a worldview of origins.
6. They oriented their buildings according to the objects in the horizon, they predicted eclipses, and useful events for agriculture, like the Nile river floods.
7. Modern science uses mathematical models like the Greeks.
8. Earth center model, with circles and epicycles.
9. They had their own Astronomy and when Europe was ready they learned from the Arabs, Indians, and Chinese. Istanbul was a center of research, and due to a crisis in the Middle East, scientists moved to Europe, and helped with the renaissance.
10. 1473