Relevant Chapter Web Links - In progress

Chapter 1

Stellarium Software - Freeware
Other Astro Software

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/skychart/#

http://skymaps.com/  A quick source to find out what is up in the sky each day is

Planet/Star sizes
Orion

Chapter 2

Heliocentric model Java demonstration showing retrograde motion of Mars

Ancient Planetary Model Animations

Models of Planetary Motion from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Statue Hid Hipparchus Star Catalog Physics Today

Ptolemy Tilted Off His Axis LA Times

 

Science and Religion issues

http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/White/#astro-2

 

de Revolutionibus scanned in its entirety and on-line

Copernicus - Folklore and History (from Physics Today Dev 2007)

Copernican Model, A Sun-Centered Solar System

Nicholas Copernicus

Elongations and Configurations

 

The Galileo Project

Galileo museum in Florence, Italy

Tycho Brahe from Rice University

Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer

The instruments of Tycho Brahe

Johannes Kepler's Polyhedra

Kepler Motion Interactive Java Program

Kepler's Laws with Animation

Galileo and Venus Phases

 

Newton's Mountain-top Cannon

Sir Isaac Newton and the Laws of Gravity

The Apollo 15 Feather-Hammer Drop "Galileo was correct!"

Isaac Newton's Gravity: How a major new exhibition gets the scientist wrong.

Chapter 4

Blackbody Site1,

Luminosity and Distance: Site1, Site2, Site3

Chapter 5

Radioactive Dating - Age of Earth

Geologists Recover Rocks From San Andreas Fault

Chapter 5

Solar System

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/system_il.html

Planetary orbits - Animation

Comets 1

Earth

Global Warming

Physics Today

http://ptonline.aip.org/journals/doc/PHTOAD-ft/vol_60/iss_9/30_1.shtml

Chapter 10 - Sun

Sunspots and climate

Neutrinos:
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~superk/announce.html
http://focus.aps.org/story/v2/st10
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/5027
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/1497
http://www.ps.uci.edu/~superk/glossary.html
 

Chapter 13 - Death of stars

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/S/Supernova+Classification