By Joseph Peters

Started in 2010 ended in 2019

Contents

1. Prologue
2. Megaliths & Mounds
3. Mesopotamia
4. Egyptians
5. Chinese
6. India
7. Greeks
8. Maya
9. Inca
10. Aztec
11. Nicolaus Copernicus
12. Johnnes Kepler
13. Galileo Galilei
14. Isaac Newton
15. Albert Einstein
16. Astrology
17. Modern Astronomy
18. Spacemen
19. Sun / Summary
    
    

Chapter I – Prologue

Today, astronomy is known as the study of objects and matter outside the Earth’s atmosphere and of their physical and chemical properties. It is one of the oldest sciences, if not the first. From the beginning of time, all living things have been affected by what goes on in the sky, and since humans have been on the planet, the sky, especially the night sky, has been the most awesome and most mysterious aspect of our lives, as well as the most overwhelming. The earliest human, would perhaps stand up on a rock, in the quiet of a clear night and stare up at the panorama of the sky and probably feel so very small, swimming amongst the stars. Dwarfed by the seemingly, endless and uncountable twinkles of light, whilst standing agape with eyes open wide and bottom lip hanging open, drooling upon oneself. Or we’d sit around our campfire and tell stories about the night skies and attempt to decipher them. Shooting stars would be talked about for days, while we may have danced with the Aureole-Aurora Borealis.