AST 3043 SUBJECT AREAS

1. The celestial sphere and aspects of the sky
2. Prehistoric astronomy (Stonehenge and Newgrange) vs. astronomy with records (Inca, Maya)
3. Native American astronomy (medicine wheels, Soyal ceremony)
4. Pacific Islanders' celestial navigation
5. Egyptian calendars and alignments, time of night
6. Chinese astronomy (calendar, periodicities, recordkeeping)
7. Babylonian astronomy (periodicities, development of predictive models)
8. The early Greeks, including Eudoxus and Aristotle, and speculative models
9. The Hellenistic Greeks, including Hipparchus and Ptolemy (observation, complex mathematical models)
10. Islamic astronomy (religious practice vs. astrology; refinements of Ptolemaic models, observatories)
11. Pre-Copernican European astronomy (Regiomontanus, Walther)
12. Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo: The Copernican Revolution
13. Organization of science and its methods (Descartes, Bacon, scientific societies)
14. Newton and Halley

Here is a more detailed topic list to give a better idea of the amount of time spent on each area.