Modern Astronomy

He said the the universe is NOT heliocentric, but our solar system is.

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

• Galileo Galelei

• Isaac Newton

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He built instruments & angle-measuring devices which he used to measure the locations of the heavenly bodies (Before the telescope was invented)

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

• Galileo Galelei

• Isaac Newton

He discovered the 3 laws of planetary motion.

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galelei

• Isaac Newton

He constructed a telescope to view the universe and discover that there are 4 satellites (moons) orbiting Jupiter.

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galelei

• Isaac Newton

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He is the first to formulate and test the law of universal gravitation.

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galelei

• Isaac Newton

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He proposed a model of the solar system with the sun at the center.

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galelei

• Isaac Newton

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The Theory of General Relativity states the following:

• the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers
• what we perceive as the force of gravity in fact arises from the curvature of space and time
  
• neither of these
• both of these

_______ was the first to use a telescope to observe the heavens.

• Newton

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Galileo

Galileo also discovered that the Moon had

• what he thought were oceans (or maria).

• active volcanoes.

• mountains.

• ice.

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The combined discoveries of Galileo (using his telescope) provided direct evidence for

• the geocentric model.

• the Copernican model of the Universe.

• Earth being a sphere.

• the Ptolemaic model of the Universe