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Astronomy has emerged as a science in the past two hundred years. true false
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Astronomy has emerged as a science in the past two hundred years. true false

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False, it has emerged as science in the past two thousand years.

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Seems to me that true, observational astronomy began with Tycho Brahe, and after him came Kepler, Newton, Halley, Herschel, all before 1800. So the statement is false.
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