2. In trigonometry and geometry, what is the process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline, rather than measuring distances to the point directly?
(a) Chronometry.
(b) Alchemy.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Triangulation.

3. In what country is Stonehenge located?
(a) India.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) England.

4. Where was Isaac Newton born?
(a) Germany.
(b) England.
(c) Spain.
(d) France.

5. As far back as Ptolemy, geography was employed as an aid in the study of what, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?
(a) Triangulation.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Heliocentricism.
(d) Cosmology.

6. Who accused Copernicus of thinking he was superior to God?
(a) Pontius Pilate.
(b) John Calvin.
(c) Martin Luther.
(d) Marco Polo.

7. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?
(a) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(b) Queen Isabella.
(c) King Henry IV.
(d) Queen Elizabeth.

8. What is the discipline that deals with the nature of the Universe as a whole?
(a) Cosmology.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Triangulation.
(d) Alchemy.

9. Where was Christopher Columbus from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) England.
(d) Italy.

10. Isaac Newton developed a theory on gravitation and in doing so demolished whose dual universe?
(a) Plato's.
(b) Eudoxus'.
(c) Claudius Ptolemy's.
(d) Aristotle's.

11. After the fall of Rome, Christian zealots were said to have burned all the "pagan" books in the library where?
(a) Athens.
(b) Alexandria.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Rome.

12. In what year did Bartholomeu Diaz round the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip if Africa?
(a) 1488.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1598.
(d) 1455.

13. Galileo's contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of what planet?
(a) Mars.
(b) Venus.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Pluto.

14. According to the author in Chapter 1: "The Dome of Heaven," Plato felt that "abstract geometrical forms were" what?
(a) "God's creation."
(b) "Man's creation."
(c) "Impossible to determine."
(d) "The universe."

15. Isaac Newton was intrigued by whose theories on inertia and the solar system?
(a) Descartes'.
(b) Aristotle's.
(c) Plato's.
(d) Claudius Ptolemy's.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Galileo published his findings in what book?

3. When did Christopher Columbus depart on his journey to the New World?

4. When was Edmond Halley born?

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

(see the answer keys)

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