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