Learning Competencies:
The learners should be able to:
1. Recognize(K) different naked-eye astronomical
observations on diurnal and annual motions of the
sky pattern, precession and equinoxes as sense
data. [IVa-37]
2. Summarize(K) ancient Greek on the three types of
terrestrial motion and the perfection of celestial
motion. [IVa-36]
3. Enumerate(K) naked-eye astronomical proofs that
the Earth is round or spherical. [IVa-38]
LESSON 7:
ANCIENT GREEK
MODELS OF THE
UNIVERSE
Learning Competencies:
1. Explain (K) how Plato’s problem of “saving the
appearances” and the two domain system
constrained the Greek models of the Universe. [IVa
-39]
2. Historical models of the Universe from the time
of Plato to the time of Ptolemy; contributions from
Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Aristarchus, Hipparchus,
and Ptolemy [IVa-40]