Copernican Revolution

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 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

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Why did Galileo receive so much criticism for his published observations & studies?

• the observations made were crude due to technological limits

• his data was not accurate

• the findings were published in Latin & no one could read it

• his findings went against the strict church teachings

What was Tycho Brahe's main contribution to astronomy?

• his extremely detailed observations of the planets

• his artificial brass/silver nose

• the hiring of Johannes Kepler

• his death in front of Johannes Kepler

What was Johannes Kepler's role with Tycho Brahe?

• Kepler was hired to make mathematical sense of the data

• the role was limited to meetings and social gatherings

• they were just math buddies

• Kepler was an adviser to Brahe

After Kepler inherited Brahe's planetary orbital data, he spent over seven years _______.

• reviewing and correcting

• trying to forget the whole thing

• mathematically crunching the data resulting in Kepler's laws

• eventually proving that Brahe was only half-right

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