Author Profile: Meet Jay Ryan
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Jay Ryan is a homeschooling dad of five children with a BS degree in physics but completely self-taught in astronomy. He has studied at length the traditional astronomy of the Greeks and has read the "great books" of astronomy, including works by Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Kopernik, Galileo, Kepler and Newton.
Jay has been involved in popular astronomy writing since 1995. For five years, he had been 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 USA and beyond, with over 40,000 copies currently in print.
Jay now devotes his work for the benefit of to Christian readers, particularly homeschoolers, to the greater glory of God. Since 2002, he has written the Classical Astronomy Update email newsletter for Christian homeschool families. He has also written astronomy and other homeschool-related articles for Homeschooling Today, Homeschool Enrichment, and The Old Schoolhouse magazines. 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.
Visit his website at ClassicalAstronomy.com.
Jay has been gracious enough to allow a number of his articles to be posted at Homeschool-Articles.com. Some of his articles include:
