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Computer as a tool in astronomy teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

Francis Berthomieu
Francis Berthomieu*
Affiliation:
Lyce Jean Moulin, Place de la Paix, 83300 Draguignan, France

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As yet, astronomy, the most ancient of all sciences, surprisingly is not included in French secondary science classes. Recent trends in favour of a more attractive and motivating scientific education have taken it up.

Astronomy has, at all times, been arising curiosity, and now provides a privileged field to scientific approach :

  1. • Observation of the vault of heaven and its peculiarities

  2. • Description of its general appearance and of the specific movement of stars and planets

  3. • Measurement of distances, coordinates and angles.

  4. • This will make it possible to define successive models, which will be ever closer to the observed reality.

Type
Section Two
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 162: New Trends in Astronomy Teaching , 1998 , pp. 89 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © 1996