Notes for Astronomy 106

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  1. The Sky and Its Motions
  2. Glossary I: The Sky and Its Motions
  3. Classical Antiquity
  4. Greek Philosophers
  5. The Medieval Period
  6. Copernicus 
  7. Tycho Brahe
  8. Johannes Kepler
  9. Galileo Galilei (Biography)
  10. Galileo Galilei (Timeline)
  11. Isaac Newton
  12. Theories of the World
  13. The Scientific Revolution
  14. Telescope Basics
  15. Discovering Planets
  16. History of light and spectroscopy I
  17. History of light and spectroscopy II
  18. Discovering Stars
  19. Chart of Stellar Properties
  20. The Great Shapley-Curtis Debate, 1920
  21. Edwin Hubble and the Resolution of the Great Debate
  22. A Brief History of the Atom
  23. How Does the Sun Shine?
  24. Relativity
  25. Stellar Evolution
  26. White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars and Black Holes
  27. Modern Cosmology

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