Pre-astrophysics discoveries

Pythagorean Paradigm about the movements of celestial objects, EXCEPT;

• Celestial objects are perfectly sphere

• Earth at the center of celestial bodies

• Celestial objects orbiting a prefect circle

• Celestial objects has elliptical orbits

Aristotle field of study are?

• science

• theology

• philosophy

• all of the above

Epicycle is

• Moon's motion

• Planet motion

• Star motion

• Sun's motion

Below are correct, EXCEPT;

• Ptolemy could explain the epicycles in geocentric model

• Copernicus geocentric model

• Tycho Brahe believed the Sun and moon orbited the Earth

• Tycho Brahe believed all the planet revolving around the sun

What important contributions did Tycho Brahe make to astronomy?

• His believed on the Sun and moon orbited the Earth

• Tycho Brahe believed all the planet revolving around the sun

• His excellent observations

• He invented a telescope

First person to use telescope for astronomical observations?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

• Galileo Galilei

Very long and thin ellipses have an eccentricity close to 0

• True

• False