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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. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?
(a) John Calvin.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Tycho Brahe.
(d) Plato.

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

3. William Herschel first became interested in nebulae when he read books by stargazers James Ferguson and whom?
(a) Rene Descartes.
(b) Captain James Cook.
(c) Tycho Brahe.
(d) Robert Smith.

4. When was William Herschel born?
(a) 1738.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1845.

5. In early models of the universe, what stood at the center of the universe?
(a) Earth.
(b) God.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

3. As a physicist, Galileo attempted to bring physics into the discovery of what?

4. Who cited the scriptures where Joshua "commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth" in Chapter 4: "The Sun Worshipers"?

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?

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