Astronomy in the Renaissance

Who was unable to reconcile centuries of data with Ptolemy’s geocentric model?

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

Fill in the blank: Nicolaus Copernicus reconsidered Aristarchus’s heliocentric model with the ______ at the center of the solar system.

• Sun

• Earth

• Moon

• Mars

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What does the Copernican explanation of retrograde motion suggest about the movement of Earth and planets moving retrograde like Mars and Jupiter?

• A) Earth moves slower than other planets

• B) Earth moves faster than other planets

• C) Earth and other planets move at the same speed

• D) Earth does not move

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What do heliocentric models explain as a natural consequence of two planets passing each other?

• Retrograde motion

• Eclipse occurrence

• Planetary alignment

• Orbital resonance

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What could Copernicus derive about the planets from the Sun?

• The relative distances of the planets from the Sun

• The exact sizes of the planets

• The chemical composition of the planets

• The number of moons each planet has

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What was one of the problems with Copernicus's model?

• It could predict planet positions more accurately than Ptolemy's model.

• It could not predict planet positions any more accurately than the model of Ptolemy.

• It explained the parallax motion of stars.

• It aligned with Aristotelian 'common sense'.

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Who was the first person to use the telescope to study the heavens and offer interpretations?

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo

• Johannes Kepler

• Nicolaus Copernicus

One of Galileo's contributions to astronomy during the Renaissance was:

• the invention of the telescope

• the discovery of the laws of motion

• the development of the heliocentric model

• the observation of Jupiter's moons

What did Galileo observe about the Sun?

• The Sun is perfect and does not change

• The Sun has spots, changes its appearance, and rotates

• The Sun is smaller than Earth

• The Sun is the center of the universe

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What did Galileo discover about Jupiter?

• Jupiter is the center of the universe

• Jupiter has four objects orbiting it, which are moons and not circling Earth

• Jupiter is larger than the Sun

• Jupiter has no moons

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