Scientific Revolution quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What did Galileo's telescope reveal the Milky Way to be?

   Answer: Countless stars

   Why: Through the telescope the glow broke up into stars too faint and too close together to pick out with the naked eye.

2. 2 Medium

   Where did a spectacle maker seek a telescope patent in 1608?

   Answer: Netherlands

   Why: Galileo built his own better telescope in 1609 only after news of the Dutch device reached Venice.

3. 3 Hard

   Who first wrote down the story of Galileo's Leaning Tower drop?

   Answer: Vincenzo Viviani

   Why: Viviani wrote it down in 1654, more than 60 years after the drop was supposed to have happened.

4. 4 Easy

   Whose 1543 book put the Sun at the center of the universe?

   Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus

   Why: Galileo, the most tempting pick, was born only in 1564, 21 years after the book appeared.

5. 5 Medium

   Which instrument did Evangelista Torricelli invent?

   Answer: Barometer

   Why: His mercury column stopped at about 76 centimeters, held up by the weight of the air pressing on the dish below.

6. 6 Hard

   After whose lecture was the Royal Society founded in 1660?

   Answer: Christopher Wren

   Why: Wren was then a professor of astronomy, and he later designed St Paul's Cathedral in London.