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