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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Deep Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?
(a) Alchemy.
(b) The earth's movement.
(c) The moon's movement.
(d) The sun's movement.

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

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

4. What describes a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from various sorts of worldly pleasures often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals?
(a) Asceticism.
(b) Heliocentricism.
(c) Alchemy.
(d) Cosmology.

5. Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?
(a) Retribution from the scientific community.
(b) Retribution from his wife.
(c) Retribution from the Church.
(d) Retribution from his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nicolaus Copernicus was born thirty years after what was invented?

2. The Islamic followers of whom misinterpreted his calculations and created a model that was cumbersome and impractical?

3. The subject of a universe of galaxies emerged again when Johann Lambert was appointed where?

4. What is a division of the astronomical science that is concerned with getting data, in contrast with theoretical astrophysics, which is mainly concerned with finding out the measurable implications of physical models?

5. William Herschel became most famous for the discovery of which planet?

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