User:Tomruen/Mars oppositions

Historical astronomers observing Mars

 * Babylonia (Babylonian Period [1900-1650 BCE]) Observed and charted movements of Mars
 * Apollonius of Perga (c. 262-c. 190 BC) Deferent and epicycle theory
 * Hipparchus (2nd century BC)
 * Ptolemy Greek Astronomer, (~90–168 AD) Book Almagest, 'Ptolemaic system
 * Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) Copernican heliocentrism
 * Tycho Brahe (1546–1601), Observed and charted movement of Mars to 1' accuracy
 * Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) First telescope view of planets
 * Percival Lowell (1855–1916) Sketched Mars