Galileo’s father Vincenzo Galilei was a renowned ____________.
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Music composer
Painter
Scientist
Doctor
What was Galileo’s first discovery with his telescope?
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Asteroids in orbit around Earth
Moons of Venus
Jagged surface of Earth’s moon
Undiscovered stars in Milky Way
Which body persecuted him for his heliocentric discoveries?
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Spanish Inquisition
Roman Inquisition
Portuguese Inquisition
Medieval Inquisition
Forced to renounce his finding that Earth moves around the Sun, Galileo famously said:
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‘God will prove I was right’
‘I am not wrong’
‘And yet it moves’
‘Time will prove I was right’
Galileo disproved this Greek philosopher’s theories about physics and astronomy.
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Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Archimedes
Galileo was sentenced to house arrest in 1633 on what charge?
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Suspected of treason
Blasphemy
Apostasy
Suspected of heresy
Galileo discovered three of _________’s four largest moons.
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Saturn
Venus
Jupiter
Neptune
Galileo invented this in 1593.
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Thermometer
Telescope
Knitting machine
Misroscope
Galileo asserted that ‘______ is the language with which God has written the Universe’.
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Physics
Mathematics
Natural Philosophy
Astronomy
In 1638, Galileo described an experimental method to measure:
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Humidity
Speed of sound
Speed of light
Distance between planets