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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: Newton's Reach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book did Copernicus have published near the time of his death?
(a) "On the Origin of Species."
(b) "De Revolutionibus."
(c) "Sidereus Nuncius."
(d) "The Almagest."

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

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

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 Most of Copernicus's work was unpublished until his death because he feared what?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

5. When was Christopher Wren born?
(a) 1632.
(b) 1666.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1717.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last great Western scientist before the Dark Ages was whom, according to the author?

2. Galileo was appointed as a professor of mathematics at what institution?

3. Newton invented a new telescope that employed a mirror rather than what for the collection of light?

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

5. Isaac Newton was intrigued by whose theories on inertia and the solar system?

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