Astronomy college course/Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho systems/Quiz01

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{The Ptolemaic system was geocentric.} + TRUE - FALSE {The Ptolemaic system was heliocentric.} - TRUE + FALSE {Most ancient Roman and most medieval scholars thought the Earth was flat.} - TRUE + FALSE {Evidence for the Copernican system is that the Earth does not seem to move.} - TRUE + FALSE {The ancient Greeks believed in circular orbits, causing them to devise the epicycle and the deferent.} + TRUE - FALSE {Copernicus was a university-trained Catholic priest dedicated to astronomy.} + TRUE - FALSE {Tycho Brahe argued that the large mass of Earth rendered it incapable of moving so quickly around the Sun.} + TRUE - FALSE

{Tycho Brahe argued that the small mass of Earth rendered it incapable of moving so quickly around the Sun.} - TRUE + FALSE {Copernicus shared his heliocentric theory with colleagues decades before he died.} + TRUE - FALSE {In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe invented his system to resolve philosophical and what he called “physical" problems with the heliocentric theory.} + TRUE - FALSE {An argument used to support the geocentric model held that heavenly bodies, while perhaps large, were able to move quickly.} + TRUE - FALSE {Tycho  tended to favor religious arguments over scientific arguments when justifying his opinions about the geocentric/heliocentric controversy.} - TRUE + FALSE {Tycho proposed an earth-orbiting sun with the planets in orbit around that moving Sun.} - TRUE + FALSE

{Tycho argued against the concept of an earth-orbiting sun with the planets in orbit around that moving Sun.} - TRUE + FALSE