Astronomy Regions of Interest
These regions are ones that are of most interest in the astronomy of long ago, i.e., it will mainly cover regions where people were practicing astronomy from 4,000 B.C. to the age of modern astronomy (1687 when Newton issued his universal Law of Gravitation). We will of course be adding to this section frequently! If you would like to see a region or event added to this list, please submit your suggestion to our comments system.
Region
Points of Interest
Africa
Ancient Egyptian Astronomy
Aristrachus - first estimation of Earth-Sun distance
Eratosthenes - circumference of the Earth
Babylonia
Ancient Babylonian Astronomy
British Isles
Newgrange Passage Tomb
Stonehenge Stone Monument
The founding of archeoastronomy
Central America
Ancient Mayan Astronomy
China
Ancient Chinese Astronomy
Denmark
Tycho Brahe - incredible naked-eye astronomer
Germany
Johann Bayer - Bayer system of star designation
Kepler - Laws of Planetary Motion
Greece
Hipparchus - first star map
Ptolemy - geocentric theory of the universe
Italy
Galileo - used one of the 1st telescopes
Netherlands
Hans Lippershey, inventor of the telescope
Poland
Copernicus - heliocentric theory of the universe
Roman Empire
Julian calendar (solar calendar)
http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/pcr/resources/astronomyhistory.htm