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