Exam 4: The Origin of Modern Astronomy

The distance from Alexandria to Syene is about 500 miles.On the summer solstice the sun is directly overhead at noon in Syene.At Alexandria on the summer solstice,the sun is 1/50th of the circumference of the sky (about 7 $\degree$ )south of the zenith.Based on this information,what is the circumference of Earth?

The diagram below shows three approximate locations of the sun along the western horizon.Which number indicates the location of the sun at sunset on December 21st for an observer at latitude 48 $\degree$ N?

Classical Greek astronomers believed the motions of the heavens could be described by uniform circular motion.

Copernicus

The purpose of the astronomical alignments of Stonehenge are known

The modern first astronomer to propose a heliocentric model for the solar system was ____________________.

Kepler completed the Rudolphine Tables.

The primary alignment in Stone Henge is an alignment of the center with the outer "heel" stone toward

Galileo wrote the Almagest.

The ancient Greek astronomer Eratosthenes measured the size of.

Which of the following people did not accept a heliocentric model of the universe?

A(n)____ is a circle whose center is located on the circumference of another circle.

Galileo's telescopic discovery of moons orbiting Jupiter was important because it showed that

The ____________________ Tables were based on a heliocentric model of the universe and used elliptical orbits for the planets.

____________________ is a description of the Ptolemaic model of the solar system.

In pre-Copernican astronomy,it was almost universally believed that

A ____ is a system of rules and principles that can be applied to a wide variety of circumstances but may not be universally accepted.

Which of the following was not based on uniform circular motion?

The first observations of objects in the solar system that orbit neither the sun nor Earth were made by ____________________.

Ptolemy's model of the universe