ASTRONOMY 106: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
Fall 2002            Ticket Number 0195
	Topic	Reading	Online Notes	Online Slides
August
20 - 22	Introduction; Basic Motions of the Sky I	A: preface, 1, 2
27 - 29	Basic Motions of the Sky II; Stonehenge	A: 2, 3
September
3 - 5	Maya and Classical Antiquity	A: 4, 6	2, 3
10 - 12	Test#1; Classicial Antiquity and Middle Ages	A:  6	2, 3
17 - 19	Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo	P:  1, 2	4, 5, 6, 7	1, 2
24 - 26	Development of the Telescope; Newton and Gravity	P:  2, 3, 4	8, 9, 10, 11	1, 2, 3
October
1 - 3	Test#2;  From Galileo to Newton	P:  4; C: 3		4,
8 - 10	Light; William Herschel and Stellar Astronomy	C: 1, 2, 3	12, 13, 14,15	5, 8, 9
15 - 17	Stellar Parallax; The New Astronomy; The Great Debate	P: 4, 5;  C: 2, 5, 7	15, 16, 17	6,
22 - 24	Test #3; Hubble and the Resolution of the Great Debate	P: 5; C: 9	18,	11,
29 - 31	Atoms and the Compostion of the Unverse		19,	12,
November
5 - 7	How Does the Sun Shine; Stellar Evolution		20, 22	12,13
12 - 14	Test #4; White Dwarfs, Supernovae and Neutron Stars		23,
19 - 21	Relativity; Black Holes		21,
26 - 28	Galaxies and the Structure of the Universe;  THANKSGIVING	P:  6
December
3 - 5	Project Due 12/5; Cosmology	P:  6	24,	14,
10 - 12	Space Exploration; Life in the Universe
17	Final	A = Aveni	P =  Panek	C= Crowe