Exploring Renaissance Astronomy: Key Figures and Discoveries in Dante's Universe

1. Renaissance Astronomy Chapter 4

2. Fig. 4.1 The Universe as described in Dante’s Divine Comedy

3. Fig. 4.2 Timeline and Notable People and Events (Left) And Four Most Prominent Renaissance Astronomers (Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, Galileo)

4. Copernicus

5. Fig. 4.3 Heliocentric Model (Copernicus)

6. Fig. 4.4 Retrograde motion according to the heliocentric model

7. Fig. 4.5

8. Fig. 4.6

9. Fig. 4.6 Greatest Elongation

10. Fig. 4.7 Mars’ epicycle in Copernicus’ model

11. Fig. 4.8

12. Tycho Brahe

13. Fig. 4.9 Tycho Brahe

14. Fig. 4.10 Parallax of a Star Distance = 1/parallax

15. Kepler

16. Fig. 4.12 Ellipses

17. Fig. 4.13 Kepler’s first law: Planets move around the Sun in ellipses

18. Fig. 4.14 Kepler’s second law: Planets sweeps out equal areas at equal times

19. Kepler’s 3rd law Kepler’s third law

20. Galileo

21. Fig. 4.15 Galileo’s Drawings of the moon

22. Fig. 4.16

23. Fig. 4.17