Astronomy college course/Wikipedia Sidereus Nuncius/Quiz01/Original version of this quiz

Astronomy_college_course {The Wikipedia article Sidereus Nuncius suggests that the inventor of the telescope was likely to be} + a lensmaker - a Chinese scientist - Galileo - A Greek scholar - none of these {Galileo called his telescope } - a mistake - a double magnifying glass - the magic eye - the liberator + an optical cannon {The "terminator" for Galileo was } - the equator + sunrise or sunset - the division between east and west - the most distant star he could see - his trial for heresy {Galileo used the terminator to} - deduce the color beneath the dust layer + correlate color with whether the region had mountains - compensate for stellar parallax - observe the wobble of the Moon's orbit - none of these {Galileo used the terminator to } - correlate dark and light regions with terrain - measure the height of mountains - compensate for stellar parallax - publicize his ideas + two of these {What statement is FALSE about Galileo and the Median Stars } - they were lined up + they were described by Aristotle - they are actually moons - motion could be observed after observing a moon for just one hour - Galileo named them after a famous and wealthy family {The title of Galileo's book, Sidereus Nuncius, is often translated as ____, but it is probably more proper to translate it as _______ } - the motion of the earth - - the location of the earth + Starry messenger - - Starry message - the motion of the stars - - the location of the stars - the Moon close up - - the Moon through a telescope - the moons of Jupiter {The Wikipedia article, Sidereus Nuncius, points out that what the ancient Greek scientist thought was a cloudy star was really } - a planetary nebula - a supernovae remnant - the rings of Saturn - a comet + many faint stars {Galileo's naming of the "Medicean Stars"} - caused his house arrest - was controversial because stars were supposed to be named after Roman gods - might have earned him a promotion - broke an agreement he made with the Pope to stop writing about astronomy + two of these are true {When the German astronomy Marius provided evidence that he (Marius) had first seen the moons of Jupiter, Galileo} + won the argument using his knowledge of calendars - pointed out that the telescope Marius was using could not have seen the Moons - used his political contacts to ensure that he (Galileo) would get credit - appealed to the Pope - didn't care; he was a true scientist {Prior to the publication of Sidereus Nuncius, the Church } - had outlawed all discussion of the Copernican heliocentric system - had given Galileo a commission to look into the Copernican heliocentric system - was unaware of any controversy concerning the Copernican heliocentric system + accepted the Copernican heliocentric system as strictly mathematical and hypothetical - none of these are true (according to the Wikpedia permalink to Sidereus Nuncius.)