Astronomers
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who catalouged the positions of 850 stars, and founded the stellar magnitude we still use today?
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Brahe
Kepler
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who represents planetary motion through interlocking circular orbits with Earth as the center?
Hipparchus
Hevelius
Hypatia
Newton
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This person was thought to have edited book 3 of Ptolemy's Almagest, a manual on the motion of the stars and planets.
Hypatia
Galileo
Kepler
Copernicus
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Showed the sun at the center of the universe
Kepler
Copernicus
Newton
Brahe
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Shattered the belief that the Universe beyond the moon was unchanging
Hipparchus
Copernicus
Brahe
Galileo
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Constructed simple refracting telescope
Brahe
Hypatia
Newton
Galileo
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Discovered planets have elliptical orbits
Kepler
Hypatia
Brahe
Hevelius
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