History of Astronomy

Which astronomer of antiquity first applied a telescope to astronomical observation?

• Ptolemy
• Galileo Galilei
• Tycho Brahe
• Copernicus

Tycho Brahe's biggest contribution to astronomy was...?

• Accurate Observations of the stars and planets
• His telescopic observations
• Heliocentric Universe
• His Silver Nose

Astronomer Johannes Kepler...

• Published Almagest
• Invented the first Radio Telescope
• Suggested elliptical orbits for the planets
• Was made head astronomer for the Church

The observation that everything moved across the night sky from east to west caused early astronomers to believe... ( choose one )

• Retrograde motion did not exist
• Stellar parallax did not exist
• The sun was the center of the solar system
• The earth was the center of the solar system

Which of the following words shows the similarity between Aristarchus and Copernicus?

• Geocentric
• Heliocentric
• Retrograde
• Epicycle

Which of the following was not a motivation for ancient people to who studied astronomy?

• religion
• weather prediction
• agriculture
• architecture

Which kind of system orbits the Earth?

• concentric

• Ptolemaic

• heliocentric

• geocentric

What did Galileo discover that proved that things can orbit objects other than the Sun?

• the moons of Jupiter

• the rings of Saturn

• the phases of Venus

• the stars of the zodiac