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Old 02-22-2005, 10:26 PM   #4 (permalink)
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PM me your answers along with your name, house and member number. The homework is worth up to 20 points! You have 4 days to hand it in.

1. When are where was Copernicus born, and when was his death. (2)
2. What was Copernicus’ best known theory called? (3)
3. When and where was Galileo born, and when was his death? (2)
4. True or false, one of Galileo’s main contributions to Astronomy was the use of the telescope in observation and discovery. (2)
5. When are where was Brahe born, and when was his death. (2)
6. True or false, although Brahe saw merit in the Copernican theory, he still believed that the planets circled the earth. (3)
7. Kepler is most noted for discovering what laws of the planets? (3)
8. What branch of Mathematics did Sir Isaac Newton create? (1)
9. True or false, Hubble said that the universe was not expanding. (1)
10. What percentage of the galaxies that Hubble observed where regular? (1)
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