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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What carpenter turned clockmaker invented the marine chronometer?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) John Harrison.
(c) Plato.
(d) Jean Richer.

2. According to the author in Chapter 7: "A Plumb Line to the Sun," some ships and their crews were lost at sea because it was difficult to establish what?
(a) Latitude.
(b) Longitude.
(c) Area.
(d) Mass.

3. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

4. What was the original name of Nicolaus Copernicus?
(a) Marco Polo.
(b) Mikolai Kopernik.
(c) Aristarchus.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy.

5. Giovanni Cassini studied data by what astronomer who observed Mars at its closest passage to earth and determined, a value of 87 million miles for the astronomical unit?
(a) John Harrison.
(b) Jean Richer.
(c) Plato.
(d) Marco Polo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the science of the measurement of time, or timekeeping?

2. What is a device with a special eyepiece to measure the size of a planet as seen through a telescope?

3. What is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines?

4. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

5. Who launched one of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768?

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