Week #1 (January 16): Introduction. The Dawn of Astronomy. (Read Chapters 1, 2 and 3)

Week #2 (January 23): Celestial Cycles and Patterns, Time, Calendars.

Week #3 (January 28): Motions of the Planets--the Geocentric Model. The Origin of the Seasons and Why the Sun and Moon Behave the Way They Do. The Origin of Eclipses. (Chap. 4 and 5)

Week #4 (February 4): The Rise of the the Heliocentric Theory: Gravity and the True Motion of the Planets (Ch 4 and 5)

Week #5 (February 11): The Earth

Week #6 (February 18): The Moon and Astronomical Devices: Telescopes

Week #7 (February 25): Atomic processes, Astronomical Techniques.

Exam #1: February 29th

Homework #1 (Due Feb 1, 2008)

Homework #2 (Due Feb. 18, 2008)

Homework #3 (Due Feb. 25, 2008)

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