ASTRONOMY 106: HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY
Spring 2003            Ticket Number 0190   (18 week course meeting on Cerritos College campus)
	Topic	Reading	Online Notes	Online Slides
January
14 - 16	Introduction; Basic Motions of the Sky I	A: preface, 1, 2	1, 2
21 - 23	Basic Motions of the Sky II	A: 2, 3	1, 2	1
28 - 30	Stonehenge and Maya	A: 4, 6		2, 3
February
4 - 6	Test#1; Classicial Antiquity	A:  6	3, 4	4
11 - 13	Middle Ages; Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo	P:  1, 2	5, 6, 7, 8, 9	4, 5, 6
18 - 20	Development of the Telescope; Newton and Gravity	P:  2, 3, 4	10, 11, 12 13	5, 6, 7
25 - 27	Test#2;  From Galileo to Newton	P:  4; C: 3	11, 13	8
March
4 - 6	Light; William Herschel and Stellar Astronomy	C: 1, 2, 3	14, 15, 16, 17	9, 12, 13
11 - 13	Stellar Parallax; The New Astronomy; The Great Debate	P: 4, 5;  C: 2, 5, 7	18, 19	10
18 - 20	Test #3; Hubble and the Resolution of the Great Debate	P: 5; C: 9	20	15
25 - 27	Atoms and the Compostion of the Unverse		21	16
April
1 - 3	How Does the Sun Shine; Stellar Evolution		22, 24	16,17
8 - 10	Test #4; White Dwarfs, Supernovae and Neutron Stars		25
14 - 20	SPRING BREAK
22 - 24	Relativity; Black Holes		23
29 - 1(May)	Galaxies and the Structure of the Universe	P:  6
May
6 - 8	Project Due 5/6; Cosmology	P:  6	26	18
13 - 15	Space Exploration; Life in the Universe
20	FINAL	A = Aveni	P =  Panek	C= Crowe