Galileo S Battle for the Heavens

Name: ______Honors World Date ______

Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens: Video Learning

Objective: To Learn of the personal and world history surrounding some of the most influential scientific discoveries.

1. What institution did Galileo come into conflict with? Why?

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2. During Galileo’s time, the popular belief about the sun and the Earth was that

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3. This geocentric of the universe was originally set out by the philosopher

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4. The Medieval universities required students to pass 7 basic subjects before you could study

philosophy and theology: Logic, Grammar, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Geometry, and Music.

The Vatican considered astronomy to be

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5. There were practical reasons for studying the heavens. The sky was a

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6. The planting of the gardens would commence (begin) with the ______.

7. The ______signaled was it almost Christmas time.

8. The phases of the moon fixed the exact dates of ______and ______.

9. Galileo studied three different areas at the University (list in order)

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10. To Galileo, the Universe could only be understood only if one studied the language of

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11. In Galileo’s mind, if a man was thinking like God he was thinking about

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12. The first telescope to reach Venice was a ______.

13. How did Galileo set out to make money with his improved version of the telescope?

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14. In 1609, Galileo first looked at the ______. Name: ______Honors World Date ______

15. What was Galileo surprised to discover when he first looked at the moon through his telescope?

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16. What was the first planet that Galileo looked at through his telescope? ______.

17. How many moons orbit Jupiter? ______.

18. Ancient astronomers, such as ______, tried to explain how celestial bodies

moved by assuming they were attached to ______.

19. The Ptolemaic system was useful if you just wanted to

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20. Nicolai Copernicus noticed the math would be more simple if the

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21. In the Copernican system the Earth has 2 motions:

a. ______

b. ______

22. Galileo noticed that Venus went through phases just as the Moon does. From this, he concluded that

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23. Why was Galileo forced to renounce Copernicus’ work?

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24. Why was Galileo was found guilty of by the Inquisition?

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25. How long did Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World remain on the Index of

Prohibited Books? ______

26. Galileo’s work in the physics of motion and his book Discourse on the Two New Sciences is the

foundation for the work of ______

27. “I believe that good philosophers, like eagles, fly alone, not in flocks, like starlings.” Explain this

statement.

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