Match the descriptions to the people

1.) Renaissance man who believed in a heliocentric universe
2.) Discovered mountains on the moon using a telescope
3.) First to measure the size of the earth to good accuracy
4.) Fist to consider ellipses as orbits
5.) Was the greatest naked eye astronomer
6.) Invented the first reflecting telescope
7.) Foremost ancient Greek philosopher
8.) Wrote the Almagest



a.) Tycho
b.) Aristarchus
c.) Isaac Newton
d.) Hipparchus
e.) Galileo
f.) Aristotle
g.) Eratosthenes
h.) Nicolaus Copernicus
i.) Johannes Kepler
j.) Ptolemy

1 - h

2 - e

3 - g

4 - i

5 - d

6 - c

7 - f

8 - j