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Finding Our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution 
  
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This website provides computer simulations and curricular materials for teaching the history of planetary astronomy from Ancient Greece to Isaac Newton. The site includes worksheets…
https://sites.berry.edu/ttimberlake/teaching/copernican-revolution/
Music of the Ellipses 
  
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This Astronomy Corner essay discusses the evolution from a geocentric model to a heliocentric model of the cosmos. The author tells the history of this discovery beginning with the…
http://www.astronomycorner.net/games/kepler.html
Reading the Sky - From Starspots to Spotting Stars  [ Thesis ]
  
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This thesis encompasses two research fields in astronomy: astrometry and astronomy education and they are discussed in two parts. These parts represent two sides of a coin;…
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-234636
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Who Needs 3D When the Universe Is Flat? 
  
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U. Eriksson, Sci. Educ., 98 (3), 412–442 (2014).
An overlooked feature in astronomy education is the need for students to learn to extrapolate three-dimensionality and the challenges that this may involve. Discerning critical…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=13750&DocID...
Celestial Sphere with Analemma JS Model  [ Computer Program ]
  
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The Celestial Sphere and Analemma JavaScript Model simulates the Two Sphere Universe theory of the Ancient Greeks. This theory supposes the stars to be fixed on the surface of a…
https://www.compadre.org/astronomy/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=14326&DocID...
Astronomy of the Earth's Motion in Space 
  
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An algebra-based overview of elementary and pre-telescope astronomy. Topics covered include sundials, seasons, calendars, precession, shape and rotation of Earth, Greek astronomy,…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sastron.htm
From Stargazers to Starships: Orbits in Space 
  
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These pages explore synchronous orbits and "Lagrangian points," those points where an object will orbit the sun with the same period as the earth. This has applications for solar…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sorbit.htm
Flight to Mars: How Long? Along what Path? 
  
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This set of three web pages provides a calculation of paths, times, and distances for a flight to Mars and back. The author uses a Hohmann transfer ellipse between two circular…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Smars1.htm
The Sundial 
  
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This web page discusses why and how sundials tell time. It provides instructions for teachers and students on how to create a paper sundial, tells how to design sundials for…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sundial.htm
Precession 
  
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This web page describes the precession of the Earth's axis of rotation relative to the stars. It describes the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus that the position of the…
http://www.phy6.org/stargaze/Sprecess.htm
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