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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 and 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a device with a special eyepiece to measure the size of a planet as seen through a telescope?
(a) Boson.
(b) Parallax.
(c) Micrometer.
(d) Lepton.

2. What theorized that the spiral and elliptical nebulae were clouds of gas that were forming new stars?
(a) The "nebular hypothesis."
(b) The "island universe."
(c) The Tychonic system.
(d) Quantum mechanics.

3. Copernicus was influenced by what Parisian scholar who theorized that the earth was in motion?
(a) Eudoxus.
(b) Nicole Oresme.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Plato.

4. When did Galileo Galilei die?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1710.
(c) 1697.
(d) 1666.

5. What carpenter turned clockmaker invented the marine chronometer?
(a) Plato.
(b) Marco Polo.
(c) John Harrison.
(d) Jean Richer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was William Herschel born?

2. Eudoxus of Cnidus was a student of whom?

3. Copernicus and Kepler measured the distances of the solar system which were expressed in what?

4. American Indians lost in the woods could find their way with the help of whom, according to the author in Chapter 3: "The Discovery of the Earth"?

5. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

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