Planetary Notes

The initial motion of the spheres according to Aristotle was due to

• Unmoved mover
• Prime mover
• Great god
• Unexpected mover

For Aristotle the terrestrial is a place of birth and death, based in the four elements. The heavens are a separate realm governed by their own rules, made of a fifth element called

• Cosmology

• Simultaneity

• Quintessence

• Aether

Aristotle believed that the heavenly bodies where perfect and moved in

• Circles
• Ellipse
• Oval
• Erratically

Aristotle asserted that the world

• Existed for all eternity
• Was created by the first god
• Was perfect after its creation
• Had a gradual beginning

The early Greeks regarded the sky as a

• Celestial Sphere
• Celestial Object
• Celestial Circle
• Celestial Heavens

Some ancient people thought that the dome that surrounded earth was

• crystalline material with stars embedded like jewels
• crystalline material that the stars were hung
• Glass that reflected light back to Earth
• Glass that the stars were hung from

How did ancient people think the sky changed from day to night?

• Earth spins on its axis, and the Sun revolves around Earth
• Celestial sphere spun, and the Earth revolves around the Sun
• Celestial sphere and the Sun revolves around the Earth
• Earth spins on it axis and revolves around the Sun

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The ancients knew that the sunrise occurred a little later each day by

• 8 minutes
• 6 minutes
• 4 minutes
• 2 minutes

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Ancient Greeks thought that he Earth was

• Flat
• Circle
• Sphere
• Disk

Aristotle proved the Earth was a sphere during a(n) _____________ with

• Lunar eclipse; the shadow the Earth cast on the Moon
• Lunar eclipse; the shadow the Moon cast on the Earth
• Solar eclipse; the Suns shadow of the Moon
• Solar eclipse; the Moon shadow on the Earth

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