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2) Did Eratosthenes very accurately calculate the circumference of the Earth?
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3) Pick the true statement:
Nicolaus Copernicus is famous for his geocentric system. Nicolaus Copernicus is famous for his heliocentric system.
4) Did John Herschel catalogue double stars, nebulae and star clusters in the Southern Hemisphere?
5) Pick the true statement:
Edmund Halley published a catalog of stars in the Southern Hemisphere. Edmund Halley wrote Principia.f
6) The solar systems according to Copernicus had complex epicycles, deferents and equants.
True False
7) Pick the correct statement:
Johann Encke correctly calculated the period for Encke's comet. Johann Encke correctly calculated the period for Encke's asteroid. Johann Encke correctly calculated the period for the Encke meteor shower.
8) Jean Dominique Cassini proposed that Saturn's rings were made up of tiny moonlets circling Saturn.
9) Did Cassini agree with the planetary laws of Johannes Kepler?
10) Nicolaus Copernicus published ...
Almagest De revolutionibus orbium coelestium None of the above