Development of Modern Astrophysics

Reading: Kaufmann, Chapters 1 - 4

I. Introduction

II. Development of Models

• Motions

• Interpretations:
  • Ancients
    • Geocentric vs. Heliocentric models

    • Greeks

  • Modern
    • Tycho and Kepler

    • Galileo and Newton

• Current Topics in Celestial Mechanics
  • Stability of the Solar System

  • Chaos