Copernicus was placed under house arrest by the Catholic church for his belief that

• there is more than one universe (multi-universal)
• our solar system revolves around the sun (Heliocentric)
• there are 3 Laws of Motion
• there is only 10,000 stars in our solar system

^{_{This astronomer thought that all of the planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits, and that the sun is not in the exact center of the orbits:}}

• Kepler
• Brahe
• Galileo
• Newton

What theory of the Universe did Ptolemy believe in? 

• Geocentric theory
• Vergocentric theory
• Heliocentric theory
• Alphamanic theory

____ was an American astronomer with a large space telescope named after him.

• Hubble
• Ptolemy
• Newton
• Galileo

A philosopher that proved the Earth is a sphere & thought it was at the center of the universe.

• William Herschel
• Isaac Newton
• Aristotle
• Nicolaus Copernicus

His model of the Earth-centered universe was the cornerstone of astronomy for 1,500 years

• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Charles Messier
• Galileo Galilei

Began a new era of astronomy when he concluded that the Sun was the center of the universe

• Aristotle
• Isaac Newton
• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus

Built an observatory and made the most accurate astronomical observations for more than 20 yrs.

• Giovanni Cassini
• Tycho Brahe
• Hipparchus
• Isaac Newton

Built a telescope and made discoveries which changed astronomy; discovered 4 moons of Jupiter

• Galileo Galilei
• Aristotle
• William Herschel
• Claudius Ptolemy

He showed the laws governing astronomical bodies were the same laws governing motion on Earth

• Isaac Newton
• Charles Messier
• Tycho Brahe
• Hipparchus