Scientific Revolution

Before Nicolaus Copernicus, the accepted belief among most Europeans was that THIS was the center of the universe...

• Sun

• Earth

• Moon

• Hogwarts

Most of the older European beliefs about astronomy could be traced back to an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician named...

• Pericles

• Karl

• Ptolemy

• Socrates

One obvious problem with ancient Greek earth-centered calculations was that sometimes the planets looked like they were doing this...

• Moving backwards

• Disappearing

• Jumping

• Going too fast

Copernicus's theory that the Earth revolves around the sun is called...

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

• Lunarcentric

• Hogwartscentric

According to Copernicus, the Earth rotates on its axis every 24 hours, which gives us...

• Oxygen.

• The ability to time-travel.

• The tides.

• Night and day.

Just before his death, Copernicus published his six-volume work, called...

• "Epicycles of Perfect Circles"

• "A New Theory of the Universe"

• "Here Comes the Sun"

• "On the Revolution of Celestial Spheres"

But Copernicus wasn't right about everything! He incorrectly stated that the planets travel in...

• Perfect circular orbits around the Sun.

• Reverse directions.

• Unpredictable irregular orbits.

• Private jets.

In addition to studying astronomy, Johannes Kepler was a professor of this subject...

• Poetry

• Mathematics

• Oceanography

• History

Kepler is most famous for contributing three theories, which we now call the...

• "Theories of the Universe"

• "Orbits of Celestial Planets."

• "Laws of Planetary Motion"

• "Rules of How Stuff Moves."

Kepler's most famous theory (now law) was that the planets travel in this kind of orbit around the sun...

• Circular (Perfect Circles)

• Elliptical (Oval-shaped)

• Irregular (Unpredictable)

• Triangular (Three points)