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The Copernican Revolution
written by Todd Timberlake
A set of computer simulations and curricular materials for teaching the history of planetary astronomy from Ancient Greece to Isaac Newton.  The site includes worksheets that guide students through the developments that culminated in the Copernican Revolution.  Many of the activities involve the use of free software, which is also available on the site.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).
http://facultyweb.berry.edu/ttimberlake/copernican/
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Astronomy
- Astronomy Education
= Curricula
- Fundamentals
= Celestial Mechanics
= Gravity
= Kepler's Laws
= Lunar Phases
= Night Sky
- Historical Astronomy
= History of Astronomy
= Philosophy of Science
- Solar System
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Curriculum
= Curriculum support
= Interactive Simulation
Intended Users Formats Ratings
- Learners
- Educators
- General Publics
- application/java
- application/pdf
- text/html
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Access Rights:
Free access
License:
This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Rights Holder:
Todd Timberlake
Keywords:
Aristotle, Copernicus, EJS, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Ptolemy, Tycho, active learning, easy java simulations, history of astronomy, nature of science, planetary motion
Record Creator:
Metadata instance created August 21, 2011 by Todd Timberlake
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T. Timberlake, The Copernican Revolution (2011), WWW Document, (http://facultyweb.berry.edu/ttimberlake/copernican/).
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T. Timberlake, The Copernican Revolution (2011), <http://facultyweb.berry.edu/ttimberlake/copernican/>.
APA Format
Timberlake, T. (2011, June 25). The Copernican Revolution. Retrieved May 23, 2013, from http://facultyweb.berry.edu/ttimberlake/copernican/
Chicago Format
Timberlake, Todd. The Copernican Revolution. June 25, 2011. http://facultyweb.berry.edu/ttimberlake/copernican/ (accessed 23 May 2013).
MLA Format
Timberlake, Todd. The Copernican Revolution. 2011. 25 June 2011. 23 May 2013 <http://facultyweb.berry.edu/ttimberlake/copernican/>.
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