Why is astronomy an old science?

Answer 1

They believe that taoism existed even before the universe was formed. they believe that it continues to guide the world and everything in it, and is ofter identified as the mother and source of all things.

Answer 2

Astronomy is considered an old science because it has been studied by civilizations for thousands of years. Ancient civilizations looked to the stars to navigate, mark time, and understand the universe. Astronomy has a rich history of observations and discoveries dating back to ancient times.

Answer 3

Great Question!

People have observed the heavens for millenia, so there's no question as to the fact that we are a little weird when it comes to outer space and science. But the main reason (and this is only personal opinion) that astronomy came before the physics of kinematics (or any thing else) is because there was something wrong with it to begin with that just annoyed people until they had to fix it. That is to say that the planets behaved wrong according the existing model (geo-centricity) in fact that is the origin of the word planet - the wandering ones. instead, coppernicus had to develop the theory of helio-centricity which actually worked! then came kinematics which, to be perfectly honest, was just a giant accident. Galileo Galilei is, of course, very famous for his work with kinematics, but the only reason he discovered anything was because he saw something (ie. that a pendulum swings the same number of times per minute no matter it's mass, or the height from which the pendulum is released) based on very random everyday events (ie. from a swinging candle lantern during church).

Answer 4

The universe is about 13.5 to 14 billion years old, from the Big Bang to the present. The half billion year uncertainty allows for a number of different methods of measurement to all fall "within it" and be in agreement. Certainly there may be some other estimates of the age of the universe, but this is a scientific one. It is almost universally accepted by scientists today.

Answer2: The Universe is around 16 Billion Years old.

Answer 5

Astronomy is the oldest science for our ancients either drew or made structures according to seasons or movements of celestial bodies in our Universe. An excellent example is Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England has been dated to 3100 B.C.E. in which one of the functions is to show when the solstices occurs (Summer and Winter).

Answer 6

The dawn of astronomy was in ancient Africa where the stars guided travelers and heralded seasons of the year. Astronomy was critical to agriculture. The Ancient Egyptians Temples and mythology is all about Astronomy. See Dawn of Astronomy by J. Norman Lockyer.

Answer 7

We believe that the "universe" we experience is about 14.5 billion years old. That assumes a LOT; that the fundamental physical principles that we have figured out in the here-and-now also applied in the there-and-way-back-when, that fundamental constants like the speed of light and the planck constant haven't changed, and dozens of other things. (For all we know, God really did take six days to create the universe 6000 years ago and just created an "old" universe to throw us off track.)

We have no information (at best, some vague speculations) about what might have come "before", or what will happen when the universe we can detect will "end". Or even if the concepts of "before" and "end" have any meaning in this context.

Answer 8

The study of Astronomy began on some clear night, a few feet outside the mouth of
some cave, when the first human who was not under attack at the moment and had
a brain big enough to accommodate curiosity looked up at the sky and wondered.
Since he chose not to publish his observations, we don't know where that was.

Answer 9

Astronomy really began when the first humans looked up at the night sky and observed what was there. In other words, astronomy has been around for as long as we know. We cannot put a start date or time, or say who was the first person to be an astronomer. If you look at the night sky, you are doing basic astronomy.

Answer 10

Under current assumptions about the state of the universe today and in the past, astronomers estimate the age of the universe as about 13.8 billion years. Its creation is theorized to have been an expanding eruption of energy called the Big Bang. Our own Sun is one of a generation of stars (called Population I stars) formed since then, and is about 4.57 billion years old.