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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: The World in Retrograde.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Observational astronomy.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Cosmology.
(d) Alchemy.

2. When did Eudoxus of Cnidus attend the Academy in Athens?
(a) 410 B.C.
(b) 385 B.C.
(c) 330 B.C.
(d) 384 B.C.

3. What is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a stationary Sun at the center of the universe?
(a) The Tychonic system.
(b) Asceticism.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Heliocentricism.

4. Where was Galileo Galilei from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Italy.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

5. Where was Vasco da Gama from?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Portugal.
(d) Greece.

Short Answer Questions

1. Galileo published his findings in what book?

2. The reawakening of interest in the cosmos was sparked by the age of exploration, beginning with whose travels to China in the thirteenth century?

3. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?

4. When was Isaac Newton born?

5. When was Galileo Galilei born?

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