Model of the Universe_A

Who was credited for having discovered the precession of Earth?

• Aristotle

• Eratosthenes

• Galileo

• Hipparchus

He proposed that Earth is a disk floating on water.

• Anaximander of Miletus

• Thales of Miletus

• Democritus of Abdera

• None of these

This model considers Earth as the center of the universe.

• Geocentric Model

• Heliocentric Model

• Pyrocentric

• Tychonic

This model was a comprise between the heliocentric and geocentric models

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Pyrocentric

• Tychonic

Who among the following is not a proponent of the geocentric model of the universe?

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Eudoxus

• Ptolemy

Who proposed the pyrocentric model of the universe?

• Philolaus

• Plato

• Ptolemy

• Pythagoras

The closest point to the sun in a planet's orbit is called the ___________.

• Aphelion

• Equant

• Focus

• Perihelion

The following are Galileo's astronomical observations, which supported the Copernican theory except _________.

• Jupiter's moon

• Lunar craters

• Phases of Venus

• Stellar parallax

How many spheres were used by Eudoxus to model the universe?

• 25

• 26

• 27

• 28

It is a circle on which a planet moves

• Epicycle

• Deferent

• Equant

• Planets