... astronomy's rich history that not only enables the roots of the science to be better understood but also provides data for comparison with the present. As stated in the World Book Encyclopedia, " The roots of astronomy extend back to the dawn of civilization. More than 4,000 years ago, in what is now England, several generations of people built Stonehenge, and "observatory ... ancient Greeks carried forward ideas from the Babylonians and invented some of their own. Aristotle's system of physics and astronomy, developed in the 300's BC, survived for almost 2,000 years. In Aristotle's sys...

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