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