A) 1629 B) 1682 C) 1596 D) 1749
A) Planet B) Moon C) Asteroid D) Comet
A) 1750 B) 1700 C) 1655 D) 1802
A) Pendulum clock B) Sundial C) Candle clock D) Hourglass
A) 1700 B) 1673 C) 1802 D) 1756
A) Valleys B) Volcanoes C) Polar ice caps D) Canals
A) Mars B) Venus C) Jupiter D) Saturn
A) CERN B) Royal Society C) UNESCO D) NASA
A) Michael Faraday B) Niels Bohr C) Thomas Young D) Max Planck
A) Celestial Mechanics B) The Galilean Moons C) Systema Saturnium D) Starry Night
A) Netherlands B) Germany C) England D) France
A) The discoverer of gravity B) The creator of the periodic table C) A key figure in the Scientific Revolution D) The inventor of calculus
A) English B) German C) Dutch D) French
A) 1689 B) 1657 C) 1673 D) 1665
A) Galileo Galilei B) Johannes Kepler C) Isaac II Thuret D) René Descartes
A) De Motu Corporum ex Percussione B) Van Rekeningh in Spelen van Gluck C) Horologium Oscillatorium D) Traité de la Lumière
A) Relativity theory of light B) Wave theory of light C) Quantum theory of light D) Corpuscular theory of light
A) Maxwell's equations B) Huygens's principle on wave propagation and diffraction C) Newton's laws of motion D) Einstein's theory of relativity
A) Huygenian eyepiece B) Keplerian eyepiece C) Galilean eyepiece D) Newtonian eyepiece
A) Isaac Newton B) René Descartes C) Galileo Galilei D) Frans van Schooten
A) Thermodynamics B) Elastic collision C) Electromagnetism D) Gravitational pull
A) Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein B) Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr C) René Descartes and Marin Mersenne D) Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler
A) Mathematician B) Physician C) Diplomat and advisor to the House of Orange D) Artist
A) A famous scientist B) His maternal grandfather C) His paternal grandfather D) An influential politician
A) Eighteen B) Seventeen C) Fifteen D) Sixteen
A) André Rivet B) John Pell C) Frans van Schooten Jr. D) Johann Henryk Dauber
A) Frans van Schooten Jr. B) Johann Henryk Dauber C) André Rivet D) John Pell
A) A war with England B) The House of Orange regained power C) The First Stadtholderless Period began D) The Dutch Golden Age ended
A) French or Latin B) German or Italian C) Dutch or English D) Spanish or Portuguese
A) 1673 B) 1666 C) 1648 D) 1655
A) Archimedes B) Euclid C) Aristotle D) Pythagoras
A) Hyperbola B) Ellipse C) Parabola D) Catenaria (catenary)
A) Claude Mylon B) Gottfried Leibniz C) Ismael Boulliau D) Pierre de Fermat
A) Grégoire de Saint-Vincent B) Isaac Newton C) René Descartes D) Blaise Pascal
A) Equal temperament B) Meantone temperament C) Just intonation D) Pythagorean tuning
A) 1675 B) 1680 C) 1660 D) 1654
A) Leiden House B) Parisian Villa C) Hofwijck D) Amsterdam Residence
A) Marin Mersenne B) Claude Mylon C) Pierre de Carcavi D) Ismael Boulliau
A) Isaac Newton B) Pierre de Fermat C) René Descartes D) Blaise Pascal
A) By publishing in journals B) In public lectures C) Via personal meetings D) Through letters
A) 1689 B) 1698 C) 1695 D) 1700
A) Pierre Bourguignon B) Bernard Vaillant C) Adriaen Hanneman D) Caspar Netscher
A) Spiral balance spring B) Cycloidal spring C) Fusee spring D) Verge spring
A) Ole Christensen Rømer B) Ignace-Gaston Pardies C) Isaac Newton D) Rasmus Bartholin
A) Modern mathematical physics B) Quantum mechanics C) Thermodynamics D) Astrophysics
A) Galileo Galilei B) Johannes Kepler C) Isaac Newton D) Robert Hooke
A) Galilean invariance B) Newtonian mechanics C) Boyle's hypothesis D) Cartesian philosophy
A) Gravitational pull B) Centrifugal force C) Magnetic field D) Torsion
A) Principia B) Dioptrica C) Opticks D) Tractatus
A) Avoiding mathematical complexity B) Generating new knowledge about the world C) Ignoring empirical data D) Focusing solely on theoretical aspects
A) François-Michel le Tellier B) Nicolas Fouquet C) Louis XIV D) Jean-Baptiste Colbert
A) The Bible provides detailed descriptions of it. B) It is neither confirmed nor denied by the Bible. C) It contradicts biblical teachings. D) It is explicitly supported by the Bible.
A) Calculus B) Continued fractions C) Trigonometry D) Algebraic geometry
A) 1669 B) 1675 C) 1656 D) 1668
A) 1801 B) 1821 C) 1819 D) 1678
A) Newton's mathematics was sound B) Newton's experiments were flawed C) Newton's ideas were metaphysical D) Newton's theories were incomplete
A) 1673 B) 1667 C) 1659 D) 1686
A) Axiomatic presentations with rigorous geometric demonstration B) Philosophical arguments C) Numerical approximations D) Empirical observations without proof
A) Carbon dioxide B) Water C) Oxygen D) Methane
A) Mars B) Venus C) Jupiter D) Saturn
A) René Descartes B) Christiaan Huygens C) Isaac Newton D) Robert Hooke
A) He was engaged but never married B) He had several marriages C) He never married. D) His marital status is unknown
A) 1689 B) 1675 C) 1663 D) 1657
A) Euler's methods B) Gauss's number theory C) Fermat's infinitesimal techniques D) Newton's calculus
A) Sirius has no planets orbiting it. B) Sirius is as luminous as the Sun. C) Sirius is part of a binary star system. D) Sirius is closer than the Moon.
A) Hyperbolical lenses B) Spherical lenses C) Parabolic lenses D) Elliptical lenses
A) Echo B) Flanging C) Resonance D) Reverberation
A) 1704 B) 1678 C) 1690 D) 1669
A) 1655 B) 1675 C) 1662 D) 1703
A) Damping causing one clock to stop. B) Phase shift resulting in different periods. C) Resonance leading to increased amplitude. D) Entrainment, where they became synchronized.
A) Albert Einstein B) Guillaume de l'Hôpital C) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz D) The Bernoullis
A) Reduce friction B) Increase torque C) Isochronize the balance D) Enhance durability
A) Descartes's laws B) Leibniz's laws C) Boyle's laws D) Newton's laws
A) 1703 B) 1673 C) 1686 D) 1659
A) Paris B) Rome C) London D) Amsterdam
A) 1659 B) 1703 C) 1675 D) 1662
A) Jean-Baptiste Colbert B) René Descartes C) Robert Boyle D) Isaac Newton
A) Royal Society of London B) Montmor Academy C) Leiden University D) Académie des sciences
A) Journal des Sçavans B) Le Journal de Physique C) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society D) Acta Eruditorum
A) Arago B) Fresnel C) Young D) Newton
A) Leiden B) London C) Amsterdam D) Paris
A) Anchor escapement B) Cylinder escapement C) Detached lever escapement D) Verge escapement
A) Barometer B) Microscope C) Magic lantern D) Telescope
A) F_c = m / (ω * r) B) F_c = m * ω2 * r C) F_c = m + ω2 + r D) F_c = m - ω2 * r
A) Jean Richer B) Lodewijk Huygens C) Alexander Bruce D) Sir Robert Moray
A) 1675 B) 1659 C) 2006 D) 1703
A) To develop a new type of escapement mechanism. B) To create a perpetual motion machine. C) The observation that pendulums are not quite isochronous. D) To improve the accuracy of sundials.
A) Universal worlds B) The celestial worlds discover’d C) The cosmic theory D) Heavenly speculations
A) Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris B) St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City C) Grote Kerk, The Hague D) Westminster Abbey, London
A) Isaac Newton B) The Bernoullis C) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz D) Michael Faraday
A) Theoretical constructs B) Contact action C) Action at a distance D) Metaphysical interaction
A) 43x B) 30x C) 50x D) 60x
A) Newton B) Leibniz C) Galileo D) Kepler
A) Action at a distance B) Theoretical constructs C) Experimentally oriented, mechanical natural philosophy D) Metaphysical systems
A) 1693 B) 1651 C) 1675 D) 1684
A) Enceladus B) Titan C) Iapetus D) Rhea
A) The steam engine B) The electric motor C) The water turbine D) The gunpowder engine
A) Ellipse B) Cycloid C) Hyperbola D) Parabola
A) Christiaan Huygens B) Ignace-Gaston Pardies C) Isaac Newton D) Rasmus Bartholin
A) Spinoza B) Robert Boyle C) Isaac Newton D) Galileo Galilei |