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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9: Hands on Heaven's Clock.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific, what did they not take with them?
(a) A compass.
(b) Harrison's clock.
(c) Medication to ward off scurvy.
(d) Smith's map.

2. Besides clocks, what was Hooke known for?
(a) A biologist, a surveyor, and a physicist.
(b) A cartologist, a botanist, and an astrologist.
(c) A capitalist, a dramatist, and an environmentalist.
(d) An astronomer, a geologist, and a realist.

3. Who was famous for reducing the motion of the planets to a few equations?
(a) Leonhard Euler.
(b) John Hadley.
(c) John Harrison.
(d) Isaac Newton.

4. Who completed the first working pendulum clock?
(a) Vincenzio.
(b) Thomas Blundeville.
(c) Galileo.
(d) Christian Huygens.

5. Who was Edmund Halley's heir?
(a) Leonhard Euler.
(b) Thomas Godfrey
(c) Tobias Mayer.
(d) James Bradley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Huygens best known as?

2. Hooke nor Huygens were able to:

3. Describe the relationship between Harrison and the Royal Academy of Astronomers.

4. Who was Harrison's right-hand man in building clocks?

5. How many men of the original 500 perished on Centurion's voyage to the South Pacific?

(see the answer key)

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