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