Chapter 1
What is the title of chapter 1?
Off-Center? It Can't Be!
What year was Nicolaus Copernicus born?
1473
What is the title of chapter 3?
On Revolutions and Fools
What is the title of chapter 5?
Renaissance Men
Name 2 of the "facts" of astronomy
-Earth is a sphere standing still at the center of the heavens. Its habitable surface forms a circle, with Jerusalem as its navel
-The stars and planets are made of a perfect substance not found on Earth
-The moon and sun and stars are held in place by invisible crystal spheres that revolve around the Earth
-Heaven has its own sphere, above the stars
-Hell, Satan's home, is at Earth's bottom
Why does Copernicus move to live with his uncle?
His dad dies of the Plague
What is heliocentrism?
The Earth orbits the sun
What is Galileo's last name?
Galilei
Everyone in the 15th and 16th centuries agrees on these things
-Earth is the center of a created world
-Earth doesn't move
-The heavenly bodies travel around Earth in perfect circular paths called orbits
-The planets govern the variable events in the world
What is Ptolemy's best seller called?
Geographia
Copernicus finds out
-Earth completes one orbit of the Sun each year
-The universe is much larger than anyone has previously believed
-Our Earth is a planet among the others
What did Galileo discover?
Dropping 2 items of different weights fall at the same rate
When does the Hundred Years' War end?
1453
Which artist used perspective in their paintings?
Leonardo da Vinci
Does Copernicus publish his work before he dies?
Yes, in 1543
Why did Galileo get fired from being a professor?
He was mean