WorksheetsAstronomers
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Who catalouged the positions of 850 stars, and founded the stellar magnitude we still use today?
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Brahe
Kepler
Who represents planetary motion through interlocking circular orbits with Earth as the center?
Hipparchus
Hevelius
Hypatia
Newton
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
Showed the sun at the center of the universe
Kepler
Copernicus
Newton
Brahe
Shattered the belief that the Universe beyond the moon was unchanging
Hipparchus
Copernicus
Brahe
Galileo
Constructed simple refracting telescope
Brahe
Hypatia
Newton
Galileo
Discovered planets have elliptical orbits
Kepler
Hypatia
Brahe
Hevelius
Was the last astronomer to do major work without aid of telescope & catalogued 1,564 stars
Kepler
Hevelius
Galileo
Newton
Discovered 4 of Saturn's moons, lapetus, Rhea, Dione, and Tethys
Newon
Hevelius
Cassini
Kepler
Remembered for their work on gravity and optics
Newton
Galileo
Cassini
Hevelius
Used the stars positions and designed instruments to make new star catalogues and star atlas of 3,000 stars to help the Navy
Cassini
Hevelius
Newton
Flamsteed
