#1 - History 2012 (Weeks 1-6)

In Luke 4:6, who made the bold claim that "he owns the whole world?"

How many thesis were on what Martin Luther tacked to the Wittenberg Church door?

What began in 1517?

• Civil War

• Black Plague

• Romantic Era

• Reformation

Into what language did Luther Translate the Bible?

Who wrote Principia Mathematica?

______ discovered that plantes move in elliptical orbits around the sun.

Who invented calculus?

Galileo was the first scientist to write a major work in his native language instead of _________.

Isaac Borrows was...

• The one who arrived at the discovery of elliptical orbits

• The Father of scientific method

• Newton's math professor at Cambridge

The two-book idea, Book of God's Word and Book of God's Work, came from ________.

Tycho Brahe's data allowed whom to arrive at the discovery of elliptical orbits?

Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems was written by __________.

Copernicus rejected the earth-centered universe and established a ______-________ universe.

_______ hypothesized that objects attract each other.

Who discovered the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn?

Who wrote letters to Dutchess Christina whilst in jail?

C.S. Lewis might've conceived the idea of finding another world in the back of a wardrobe from the Bible.

• True

• False

The Protestant Work Ethic means:

• Work is evil

• Work is a way to make God love us

• Work is an expression of our faith in God

• You have to work to be a Protestant

Where was Isaac Newton buried?

• Highgate

• Carriage Lane

• His backyard

• Westminster Abbey

In C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters, who is the senior demon?

• Wormwood

• Screwtape

• Lucifer

• Fredrick

Both Luther and Calvin saw work as negative.

• True

• False

Francis Bacon is the Father of the Scientific Method.

• True

• False

The author of Institues of the Christian Religion was Saint Augustine.

• True

• False

Who lived the same time as Galileo?

• Shakespeare

• Martin Luther

• Isaac Newton

• John Calvin

Which of these did Tycho Brahe discover? (there may be more than one)

• Comet of 1577

• Star of 1572

• Jupiter

• Saturn

This man's accurate observations were used to discover the elliptical orbit of planets:

• Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

• Galileo

• Kepler

Galileo was friends with which pope?

• Gregory XV

• Urban VIII

• Alexander VII

• Clement IX

In Copernican system planets move:

• In circular orbits

• In elliptical orbits

• With variable speed

• In retrograde motion

Galileo write The Starry Messanger in 1610.

• True

• False

________ developed a geocentric view of the universe.

• Copernicus

• Aristarchus

• Ptolemy

• Heraclitus

What was The Index?

• A library where Galileo went to study

• A book written by John Tetzel

• The history of Poland

• A list of books that no one was supposed to read

Michael Maestin was the German astronomer who befriended and helped crippled Kepler with his work.

• True

• False

Whose plan was used in rebuilding London after the Great Fire?

• Christopher Wren

• Robert Hooke

• Edmund Halley

• Isaac Borrow

Newton... [may be more than one answer]

• Used mathematics to prove Kepler was right about elliptical orbits.

• Is the Father of the experimental method

• Came up with the famous equation, F = ma

• Is the Father of scientific method

Who disputed the cause of planets moving in elliptical orbits?

• Christopher Wren

• Isaac Barrow

• Edmund Halley

• Robert Hooke

Kepler wrote

• Orbum Caelestium

• Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music

• The Mysterium Cosmographicum

• Astronomia Nova