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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. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?
(a) The Beagle.
(b) The HMS Explorer.
(c) The USS Explorer.
(d) The HMS Endeavour.

2. What is the science of the measurement of time, or timekeeping?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Chronometry.
(d) Cartography.

3. Who cited the scriptures where Joshua "commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth" in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?
(a) Pontius Pilate.
(b) Martin Luther.
(c) John Calvin.
(d) Marco Polo.

4. Who launched one of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768?
(a) Claudius Ptolemy.
(b) Captain James Cook.
(c) Marco Polo.
(d) Prince Henry the Navigator.

5. Copernicus was impressed by the logic of whose belief that there was an underlying structure to the entire universe?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) Archimedes'.
(d) Eudoxus'.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Charles Darwin find marine fossils on mountaintops?

2. What is the second premise of "On the Origin of Species"?

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. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?

5. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?

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