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22. What was the “eighth heaven”?
a. The “Heaven” for Catholic souls released from Purgatory after the sale of indulgences by
the Church
b. The name that Brahe gave to the island that Fredrick II, king of Denmark, offered to him
c. The name Tycho Brahe gave to the supernova he observed in 1572
d. The outermost sphere of the Ptolemaic universe where the “fixed stars” are supposedly
located
ANS: D DIF: Factual REF: The Rise of Science
23. Tycho Brahe used ____ to measure the locations of stars and planets to an unheard of high level of
precision.
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24. Who discovered that the astronomical tables used to predict planetary movement were wrong when
they failed to predict the planetary conjunction that he had observed?
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25. Brahe used sextants as one of his units of measure of the locations of the starts and planets. How many
degrees is a sextant?
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26. Who pioneered the use of the basic empirical techniques of science?
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a. Copernicus c. Kepler
b. Brahe d. Galileo
ANS: B DIF: Factual REF: The Rise of Science
27. The Tychonic model of the universe had the ____.
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28. Brahe hired a young astronomer named ____ to help him work out the mathematical details of the
Tychonic model of the universe.
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29. At first, Brahe shared with Kepler the orbital data for only one planet: ____.
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30. Kepler’s mathematical model of the universe, based on 3D shapes, was not well received because
____.
a. his model mixed liberal arts with natural philosophy
b. his mathematical calculations were proven to be wrong
c. the planets were thought to be flat (2D)
d. his model relied on hypothetical devices
ANS: A