Early Astronomers did not even have the compass. The early astronomers believed that the world was flat or round in shape.
In truth, all the ancient knowledge that was passed on to the astronomers were not in Human understanding. The building of Pyramids, the ancients scriptures and text that tells of the astronomical charts and calendars were handed down to them as gifts.
These were knowledge given by the gods. But the question is. Are the gods who gave us these answers are truly GODS ? or were they merely extra-terrestial beings advanced in knowledge and technology ?
Academicians will off course throw out this story due to our failure to comply to the facts or rationality of logic. But many things on Earth defies the very fabric of common beliefs on rationality and logic. For instance, can we prove the existence of gravity or see gravity ? We cant. But we know that it exist. So there is your proof that such things DO exist. We as humans have to just remain to have the faith that many questions will go unanswered.
Early astronomers believed that the universe was made up of the Earth at the center, surrounded by concentric spheres holding the Moon, Sun, planets, and stars. This model of the universe, known as the geocentric model, was proposed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
Early astronomers believed in the geocentric model because it appeared to explain the motion of celestial bodies in the sky. The model was supported by the apparent daily motion of the sun and stars around the Earth. Additionally, there was a philosophical and religious belief at the time that Earth was the center of the universe.
Some astronomers from the early 1400s include Regiomontanus, Copernicus, and Purbach. These astronomers made significant contributions to the understanding of the cosmos and laid the foundation for future astronomical discoveries.
astroneomers were not shunned because of the geocentric model but the heliocentric model (with the sun in the middle of the universe). This was because religious leaders believed that god created the earth as the center of the universe and this idea was believed by nearly everybody.
The phases of the moon were first discovered by early astronomers, likely those from ancient civilizations such as the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Greeks. These astronomers observed the changing appearance of the moon in the night sky and tracked its various phases over time.
They thought it was a explosion in the universe so they sent astronauts into space.
It depends on which early philosophers you mean (astrologers did not concern themselves much with the issue, as they were more concerned with what was in the sky than on the ground). Some thought the soil / stone just continued downwards. Others that there was a fiery place within (thus explaining volcanoes). Still others thought the world was Swiss cheesed with rivers and seas.
geocentric theory
Because there is a belief that the galaxies move away from you once you walk
Early astronomers believed that the universe was made up of the Earth at the center, surrounded by concentric spheres holding the Moon, Sun, planets, and stars. This model of the universe, known as the geocentric model, was proposed by Ptolemy in the 2nd century.
Early astronomers believed in the geocentric model because it appeared to explain the motion of celestial bodies in the sky. The model was supported by the apparent daily motion of the sun and stars around the Earth. Additionally, there was a philosophical and religious belief at the time that Earth was the center of the universe.
The term cosmic soup arises in cosmology to describe a period of time very shortly after the Big Bang, when the universe is thought to have consisted of a dense mixture of subatomic particles.
Astronomers can watch galaxies that are far away. Since the light takes billions of years to reach us from the farthest known galaxies, they would be watching galaxies in the early Universe. It turns out, from such observations, that the Universe is changing.
Aristarchus of Samos thought that the sun was at the center of the universe and some "educated" greek people thought that the earth was the center of the universe but they were dead wrong because modern science now has evidence that the sun is the center of the universe.
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Early astronomers observed that Mercury had two distinct elongated appearances: as a morning star and as an evening star. They mistakenly believed these were two separate planets when, in fact, it was due to Mercury's proximity to the Sun causing it to be visible at certain times from Earth.
The telescope wasn't invented until about 1604, so "early" astronomers had no telescopes.