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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: Time in a Bottle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Huygens best known as?
(a) The first great astronomer.
(b) The first great horologist.
(c) The first great philosopher.
(d) The first great scientist.

2. Huygen's clocks went on a number of voyages. On the third voyage to the Cape Verde Islands, what did his clock do?
(a) Kept good track of the ship's longitude.
(b) Made the ship arrive three weeks ahead of schedule.
(c) Sent the ship 50 miles off course.
(d) Stopped working midway through the voyage because of the temperature change.

3. What did King Louis XIV of France complain about with more accurate measures of longitude?
(a) That maps based on stars were inaccurate.
(b) That sea travel became more treacherous.
(c) That the economic costs of not knowing longitude were bankrupting his country.
(d) That he was losing more territory to his astronomers than his enemies.

4. Who won the Hooke/Huygens conflict?
(a) Neither.
(b) Both.
(c) Hugyens.
(d) Hooke.

5. When measuring longitude, each hour of time difference between the ship and starting point marks a progress of how many degrees of longitude?
(a) 5.
(b) 30.
(c) 15.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?

2. Harrison's clocks were referred to as:

3. What unusual occurrence helped in early navigation at sea?

4. What was Giovanni Domenico Cassini famous for?

5. Where does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 3: Adrift in a Clockwork Universe have the author dreaming he is locked in?

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