Pretelescopic astronomy | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-31

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_astronomy


00:00:48 1 Early history
00:02:24 2 Prehistoric Europe
00:08:22 3 Ancient times
00:08:31 3.1 Mesopotamia
00:12:51 3.2 India
00:16:24 3.3 Greece and Hellenistic world
00:20:08 3.4 Egypt
00:23:18 3.5 China
00:25:00 3.6 Mesoamerica
00:26:20 4 Medieval Middle East
00:29:33 5 Medieval Western Europe
00:33:39 6 Copernican Revolution
00:40:14 7 Completing the solar system
00:41:44 8 Modern astronomy
00:44:13 9 Cosmology and the expansion of the universe
00:45:19 10 New windows into the Cosmos open
00:46:20 11 See also
00:46:29 12 Notes
00:46:37 13 Historians of astronomy



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Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical, and astrological beliefs and practices of prehistory: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy. It was not completely separated in Europe (see astrology and astronomy) during the Copernican Revolution starting in 1543. In some cultures, astronomical data was used for astrological prognostication.
Ancient astronomers were able to differentiate between stars and planets, as stars remain relatively fixed over the centuries while planets will move an appreciable amount during a comparatively short time.