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