ASTRONOMY 106: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
Fall 2003            Ticket Number 0195   (18 week course meeting on Cerritos College campus)
	Topic	Reading	Online Notes	Online Slides
August
19 - 21	Introduction; Basic Motions of the Sky I	A: preface, 1, 2	1
26 - 28	Basic Motions of the Sky II	A: 2, 3	1
September
2 - 4	Stonehenge and Maya	A: 3, 4		1,2
9 - 11	Test#1; Classicial Antiquity	A: 6	3, 4	3
16 - 18	Middle Ages; Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Galileo	P: 1, 2	5,6,7,8,9	4, 5
23 - 25	Galileo to Newton; Newton and Gravity	P: 2, 3, 4	10,11,12	7,8
30 - 2(Oct)	Test#2;  Light; Optical Instruments	P: 2, 3; C: 1	13,15,16	6, 12
October
7 - 9	William Herschel and Stellar Astronomy; Parallax	C: 1, 2, 3	14, 17	9, 10
14 - 16	The New Astronomy; Properties of Stars; Classifying Stars	P: 4, 5; C: 2, 5, 7	18	11, 13
21 - 23	Test #3; The Great Debate	C: 7, 8	19	14
28 - 30	Hubble Settles the Great Debate; Atoms and the Universe	P: 5; C: 9	20,21	15, 16
November
4 - 6	"Ring of Truth"; How Does the Sun Shine?		22	16
11 - 13	Vetrans Day;  Test #4		24	17
18 - 20	Stellar Evolution; Relativity; Black Holes	P: 6	23,25	17
25 - 27	"Supernova 1987a"; Thanksgiving Holiday
December
2 - 4	Project Due 12/2; Cosmology; "Search for Alien Worlds"	P: 6	26	18
9 - 11	Space Exploration; Life in the Universe
16	FINAL
A = Aveni; P = Panek; C= Crowe