Astronomy college course/Wikipedia Sidereus Nuncius/questions

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Questions about Galileo in Sidereus_Nuncius (permalink)

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 * 1) Although nobody knows for sure, a likely candidate for the invention of the telescope was (a) Galileo (b) A chinese inventer (c) a lensmaker (c) a glass blower.
 * 2) What odd name did Galileo call his telescoes?
 * 3) Who or what was the terminator (for Galileo)?
 * 4) What did the terminator do when it crossed the mountains?
 * 5) What surprising quantitative fact did Galileo estimate regarding the Moon's geological features?
 * 6) What did Galileo discover about the Pleiades?
 * 7) That were Galileo's Medicean Stars?
 * 8) What does the Flight into Egypt have to do with Galileo?
 * 9) Simon Marius believed that he deserved the right to name Jupiter’s love after his love conquests: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto because he (Marius) first observed them on December 29, 1609. Galileo first observed Jupiter's moons was January 7, 1610.  How did Galileo prove that he saw them first?
 * 10) Prior to the publication of Sidereus Nuncius, the Church accepted the Copernican heliocentric system in what way?