Teaching Classical Astronomy
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| Vol. 77, Prg. 16-20
September 17-21, 2007
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Why should I teach my kids classical astronomy? This week, Michael Farris and author Jay Ryan discuss appreciating God’s glorious creation as your family studies the stars and constellations.
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Jay Ryan
Jay has a bachelor’s degree in physics, but in 1995 he began learning and writing on astronomy. Jay has studied at length the “great books” of astronomy, including works by Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Kopernik, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.
For five years, he was a contributing editor to Sky & Telescope magazine, creating the SkyWise comic strip. He is also the author of Cycles: An Introduction to Astronomy and Time, an educational comic book used in high schools and
colleges around the United States and beyond, with over 40,000 copies currently in
print.
Jay now devotes his work to the greater glory of God, for the benefit of
Christian readers, particularly homeschoolers. Since 2002, he has written
the Classical Astronomy Update, an email newsletter for Christian homeschool
families as well as astronomy and other homeschool-related
articles for Homeschooling Today, Homeschool Enrichment, and The Old
Schoolhouse.
He is a frequent contributor to the homeschool channel at Crosswalk.com. His article “The Astronomy of Easter” was picked as one of the Crosswalk Top 6 homeschool articles for 2006.
