Astronomy 9 (Spring 2000): Notes

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• 1/19 Introduction (PDF)
• 1/21 Origin Myths: Africa (PDF)
• 1/24 Origin Myths: The Americas (PDF)
• 1/26 Origin Myths: The Pacific (PDF)
• 1/28 Origin Myths: India, China, Japan (PDF)
• 1/31 Origin Myths: The Middle East and Europe (PDF)
• 2/2 Astrology and Ancient Astronomy (PDF)
• 2/7 Ancient Greece: The Pre-Socratics (PDF)
• 2/9 Ancient Greece: Plato and Eudoxus (PDF)
• 2/11 Ancient Greece: Aristotle and Greek Astronomy (PDF)
• 2/14 Ancient Greece: Astronomy and the Ptolemaic System (PDF)
• 2/19 Cosmology in the Middle Ages (PDF)
• 2/23 Copernicus and Digges (PDF)
• 2/25 Tycho and Kepler (PDF)
• 2/28 Galileo (PDF)
• 3/1 The Newtonian Synthesis (PDF)
• 3/6 Cosmology and Astronomy after Newton (PDF)
• 3/15 Physics Before the 20th Century (PDF)
• 3/22 Special Relativity (PDF)
• 4/3 General Relativity (PDF)
• 4/7 Life in the Quantum World (PDF)
• 4/17 The Expanding Universe (PDF)
• 4/21 Big Bang vs. Steady State (PDF)
• 4/28 Echoes of the Bang: The Cosmic Microwave Background (PDF)
• 5/3 A Brief History of Everything (PDF)