Galileo Galilei - Quiz
A) June 23, 1612 B) February 15, 1564 C) December 7, 1635 D) March 4, 1590
A) Pisa, Italy B) Cairo, Egypt C) Athens, Greece D) Barcelona, Spain
A) The Father of Modern Science B) The Mathematics Wizard C) The King of Astronomy D) The Renaissance Man
A) Isaac Newton B) Johannes Kepler C) Nicolaus Copernicus D) Aristotle
A) Sidereus Nuncius B) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems C) The Starry Messenger D) Letters on Sunspots
A) 1632 B) 1678 C) 1599 D) 1645
A) Farmer B) Musician C) Soldier D) Astronomer, physicist, and engineer
A) Royal jester B) Master gardener C) Court musician D) Philosopher and mathematician
A) 1567 B) 1655 C) 1610 D) 1582
A) 1633 B) 1605 C) 1621 D) 1648
A) Five B) Four C) Three D) Six
A) Vincenzo B) Borghini C) Giulia D) Michelangelo (or Michelagnolo)
A) Ten B) Eight C) Six D) Twelve
A) University of Pisa B) Vallombrosa Abbey C) Florence Cathedral School D) Duchy of Florence Academy
A) Vincenzo Galilei B) Muzio Tedaldi C) Giulia Ammannati D) Jacopo Borghini
A) Violin B) Piano C) Flute D) Lute
A) Bonaiuti B) Galilei C) Galileo D) Linceo
A) Galileo Bonaiuti B) Sestilia Bocchineri C) Marina Gamba D) Tommaso Caccini
A) Dominican Order B) Accademia dei Lincei C) San Matteo Convent D) Basilica of Santa Croce
A) Vincenzo B) Marina Gamba C) Sestilia Bocchineri D) Tommaso Caccini
A) Two B) Four C) One D) Three
A) Galileo Bonaiuti B) Livia C) Sister Arcangela D) Maria Celeste
A) Legitimised B) Ill C) Married D) Healthy
A) Livia B) Sestilia Bocchineri C) Maria Celeste D) Marina Gamba
A) Their illegitimate birth B) Their health conditions C) Religious vows D) Financial problems with sisters
A) Theology degree B) Philosophy degree C) Medical degree D) Mathematics degree
A) The movement of planets in the night sky. B) The flow of water in a river. C) A swinging chandelier's consistent timing with his heartbeat. D) The flight path of birds.
A) A barometer B) A hydrostatic balance C) A steam engine D) An air pump
A) A horse-powered water pump B) A mechanical clock C) A telescope design D) An air conditioning system
A) They were rivals in scientific research. B) They began a lifelong friendship. C) Cigoli was Galileo's student. D) Cigoli was Galileo's mentor.
A) Tychonic geo-heliocentrism B) The Ptolemaic model C) Capellan geo-heliocentrism D) Copernican heliocentrism
A) A thermoscope B) A barometer C) A steam engine D) An air pump
A) It was dedicated to Pope Urban VIII B) The character Simplicio, who defended geocentrism, often came across as foolish C) Galileo explicitly stated his support for heliocentrism in the preface D) He included personal attacks on Aristotelian scholars
A) Jovian moons B) Cosmian bodies C) Medicean stars D) Galilean satellites
A) Distorted images. B) Reduced images. C) Inverted images. D) Magnified, upright images.
A) The Assayer B) Two New Sciences C) On Motion D) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
A) Nicole Oresme B) Domingo de Soto C) Lucretius D) John Philoponus
A) Because the smaller sizes made the argument about undetectable annual parallaxes less absurd. B) Because they proved the stars were much larger than expected. C) Because they showed stars had no parallax. D) Because they confirmed the geoheliocentric model.
A) Nieuwe Kerk B) Grote Markt C) Prinsenhof D) Dokkentoren
A) Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems B) Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) C) The Assayer D) De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
A) Harriot's observatory B) Christopher Clavius's observatory in Rome C) Galileo's own observatory D) The University of Bologna
A) French B) English C) Italian D) Latin
A) Observing the moons proved too difficult. B) The method was too complex for sailors. C) The moons could only be seen during the day. D) The ships were not equipped with telescopes.
A) Johannes Kepler B) Galileo Galilei C) Christiaan Huygens D) René Descartes
A) Discourse on Comets B) Astronomical Disputation C) The Assayer (Il Saggiatore) D) Philosophical Balance
A) Johannes Kepler B) René Descartes C) Vincenzo Viviani D) Christiaan Huygens
A) At least 598 volumes B) 560 volumes C) 600 volumes D) 500 volumes
A) Newtonian mechanics B) Thermodynamics C) Quantum mechanics D) Galilean invariance
A) 1758. B) 1835. C) 1718. D) 1992.
A) Francesco Sizzi B) Jesuit Christoph Scheiner C) Johannes Fabricius D) Tycho Brahe
A) Kepler's laws of planetary motion B) Newton's laws of motion C) Aristotle's teaching that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones D) Einstein's theory of relativity
A) March 1610 B) 25 August 1609 C) 1608 D) 15 January 1605
A) A thought experiment involving a ship's cabin B) A mathematical proof C) A laboratory experiment D) An astronomical observation
A) Auroras B) Comets C) Planets D) Moons
A) From the top of mountains B) Using inclined planes C) Underwater D) In a vacuum chamber
A) Vincenzo Viviani B) Sir Isaac Newton C) René Descartes D) Johannes Kepler
A) 1861 B) 1649 C) 1793 D) Around 1750
A) Stillman Drake B) Isaac Newton C) Albert Einstein D) Robert Hooke
A) Tycho Brahe B) Ottavio Brenzoni C) Kepler D) Hans Lippershey
A) Hans Lippershey B) Ottavio Brenzoni C) Galileo Galilei D) Tycho Brahe
A) Thomas Harriot B) Aristotle C) Simon Marius D) William Gilbert
A) 6th century B) 16th century C) 17th century D) 14th century
A) Planets orbited the Sun directly. B) Planets' orbits did not intersect the spherical shell carrying the Sun. C) Planets had elliptical orbits. D) Planets orbited Earth in perfect circles.
A) 1492 B) 1609 C) 1638 D) 1586
A) Inelastic B) Isotropic C) Inertial D) Isochronous
A) The influence of lunar phases on ocean currents B) The impact of solar flares on Earth's atmosphere C) A physical demonstration supporting the Copernican system D) The inaccuracies of Aristotelian physics
A) John Philoponus B) Nicole Oresme C) Domingo de Soto D) Lucretius
A) From Tycho Brahe B) Via Hans Lippershey C) Through a letter from Ottavio Brenzoni D) By observing it directly in 1604
A) Saturn's moons changed positions. B) The telescope malfunctioned. C) He thought the planet had disappeared. D) The rings reappeared after being oriented directly to Earth.
A) Pope Paul V B) Francesco Ingoli C) Cardinal Bellarmine D) Benedetto Castelli
A) Aurora Borealis. B) Roman Dawn. C) Galilean Lights. D) Borealis Lights.
A) 1610 B) 1623 C) 1606 D) 1638
A) 2009 B) 1590 C) 1632 D) 1610
A) Nicole Oresme B) John Philoponus C) Lucretius D) Domingo de Soto
A) June B) December C) January D) September |
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