Colonial American Astronomy | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2018-12-31

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00:00:18 1 England's Expedition to the Outer Banks
00:01:21 2 Harvard College and Astronomy
00:02:47 3 Astronomical Almanacs
00:06:43 4 Royal Society Fellows in Colonial America
00:11:15 5 The ‘Puritan and Science’ Thesis



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Colonial American Astronomy can be traced to the time when the English began colonizing in the New World during the sixteenth century. They brought with them their interest in astronomy.  At first, astronomical thought in America was based on Aristotelian philosophy,