Writing Homework Help

1. Before modern times, without telescopes, satellites, and other technology, how would people have figured out what the universe looked like, do you think? And why might it then have made perfect sense to believe that the earth was the center of the universe?

2. Look again at the “Medieval Catholic Map” (Document 2). This map includes many of Aristotle’s ideas, in particular, the position and order of the planets. But parts of it were added by the Catholic Church. Can you figure out which parts may have been added by the Church? Give justification for your answers.

3. What are THREE things that we now know to be factually incorrect on either of these maps?

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