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What was the power of the Galilean telescope?
A. 9 power B. 30 power C. 20 power D. 12 power
B.
Who put the sun instead of the earth at the center of the universe?
Nicolaus Copernicus (aka Lord Farquaad)
Who was a theological "Peeping Tom"?
A. Lippershey B. Sarpi C. Galileo D. Copernicus
C. Galileo
Johannes Kepler was allergic to salad
False! He liked his with lettuce, grains of salt, drops of water, vinegar, oil, and slices of eggs.
What controversial object preceded the telescope and was supposedly created by an unacademic inventor?
eyeglasses
What type of knowledge challenged common sense?
and...
What "would lead man to discover the nakedness of his senses?"
Scientific knowledge challenged common sense. The revelation that the earth wasn't the center of the universe led man to discover the nakedness of his senses.
This man (1571-1630) was born in Württemberg in South Germany. He was a devout Lutheran even though his contemporaries were Catholic. He was mentored by Tycho Brache and was told to translate Tycho's "new scheme" into improved astronomical tables. His family wanted him to be a pastor but he wanted to be an astronomer. He discovered that the planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun at one focus.
Johannes Kepler
This man liked to keep his discoveries to himself:
A. Robert Hooke B. Copernicus
C. Leeuwenhoek D. Galileo
C.
The Medicean planets were actually the moons of Jupiter.
True
What was Tycho's compromise to an immovable earth and the heliocentric system?
The other planets rotated around the sun following the sun's movements about the earth.
What important book was written by Aristotle in 1543?
De Revolutionibus
This Danish man attended the Lutheran University at an early age to lear all seven of the liberal arts. He was forced to pursue his passion of astronomy in private because his parents preferred he study something else, and he created a unique housing community for people who loved studying the heavens. He even made a revised catalogue of the stars that replaced Ptolmey's catalogue!!
Tycho Brahe
Which book did Kepler write?
A. The Starry Messenger B. Cosmography
C.Mysterium Cosmographicum
C.
The Pope decreed on June 16 that Galileo was condemned to private penance and house arrest for writing the book Dialogue.
False. The Dialogue was totally forbidden, Galileo was to make public and formal abjuration, and also to be imprisoned for an indefinite period.
1. Created a telescope, 2. was blind, 3. was ridiculed, 4.owned a shop in Padua, 4. paid dowry for his sister, 5. provided for old mother, 6. tested out thousands of objects to make sure his telescope worked correctly,
Who were the Copernicus and Galileo of microscopes?
Hooke and Leeuwenhoek
Name two people that we specifically talked about in this chapter who disagreed with Copernicus.
1. Luther
2. Calvin
3. Melanchthon
Was Galileo's Dialogue published on February 21
A. 1644 B. 1642 C.1633 D. 1632
D.
Robert Hooke discovered animalcules in the glass of water he retrieved from a lake.
False. It was Leeuwenhoek.
How did the telescope get its name?
The word "telescope" was actually devised by a Greek poet-theologian who was present at the time of the telescopes christening. From then on it was a tradition to give instruments of modern science names borrowed from ancient Greece. (p 322)
What was the community that was created by Tycho called that devoted themselves to the study of the heavens?
the Heavenly Castle (Uraniborg), but it might have been called the Heavenly City
What Catholic Cardinal opposed Galileo's explanation of the disagreements between the words of Scripture and the facts of Nature?
Robert Bellarmine
Who supposedly made the telescope used as a military device?
A. Han Lippershey B. James Metius
C. Prince Maurice D. Zacharias Jensen
A. Hans Lippershey
False. The pepper part was correct but he believed that human growth came from male's gametes.
What was Galileo's explanation of the disagreements between the words of Scripture and the facts of Nature?
(p.322-323)
Both the scriptures and nature come from God's orders. The scriptures need to be able to explain things to common people so some things are going to be simplified from the absolute truth. Also, nature doesn't care if it is explained in full. So as long as nature doesn't overstep the bound of the laws imposed on her, then there is no reason why Nature goes against God's Scriptures.