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2) Johannes Kepler's treatise about the optics of a telescope was called ...
Narratio de Jovis Satellitibus Dioptrice
3) Johann Madler and Wilhelm Beer published maps of Mercury and Venus.
Correct Incorrect
4) Pick the true statement:
Johannes Kepler discovered the three laws of planetary motion. Johannes Kepler discovered the three laws of lunar motion. Johannes Kepler discovered the three laws of solar motion.
5) Did John C. Adams and Joseph Le Verrier independently discover Neptune within a week of each other?
6) Gerard Peter Kuiper proved that the polar icecaps of Mars are made of frozen water - not carbon dioxide.
True False
7) Pick the correct statement:
Gerard Peter Kuiper accurately measured the diameter of Plutos moon. Gerard Peter Kuiper accurately measured the diameter of one of Neptunes moons. Gerard Peter Kuiper accurately measured the diameter of one of Jupiters moons. None of these are correct
8) Johannes Kepler wrote the following 3 treatises:
9) Halley had no interest in applying his astronomical observations for practical, everyday use.
10) Johannes Kepler wrote De Stella Nova (On the New Star) in 1806.