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