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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: Deep Space.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the time of Archimedes' death, Greek science, along with the rest of the intellectual world, had been transferred from Athens to where?
(a) Alexandria.
(b) Rome.
(c) England.
(d) Sparta.

2. Kant first became interested in space travel after reading a review of what philosopher's book?
(a) Thomas Wright's.
(b) Plato's.
(c) John Harrison's.
(d) Aristotle's.

3. Aristotle declared that a body in rest tended to do what?
(a) Grow moss.
(b) Dissipate.
(c) Stay at rest.
(d) Start moving.

4. Nicolaus Copernicus's work proved that what system was inaccurate?
(a) The Tychonic system.
(b) Triangulation.
(c) The Ptolemaic system.
(d) Quantum flux.

5. Galileo was appointed as a professor of mathematics at what institution?
(a) The University of Paris.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) The University of Zurich.
(d) The University of Pisa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from?

2. Who launched one of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768?

3. Copernicus studied the great astronomers, and particularly admired whom?

4. One of the most renowned transit expeditions was launched by the Royal Society in August 1768 on what ship?

5. The author of "An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe" described the Milky Way as what?

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