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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - History of Physics I
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


Who estimated the earth's diameter by comparing the shadow angles in different places around 250BC ?

 

Ptolemy
Aristotle
Democritus
Eratostethenes

 Who suggested the sun was at the centre of the planets with planets moving around it in 1543 ?

 

Ptolemy
Aristotle
Newton
Copernicus
Who created the Laws of Refraction in 1621 ?

 

Snell
Galileo
Torricelli
Boyle

 Around 400 BC who suggested there might be a limit to the divisibility of matter ?

 

Ptolemy
Aristotle
Democritus
Eratostethenes
In 1662 who stated his Law of Gases ?

 

Snell
Galileo
Torricelli
Boyle

 Circa 350BC who suggested the Earth was the centre of the Universe with the Sun & Planets orbiting

 

Ptolemy
Aristotle
Democritus
Eratostethenes
During 1604 who showed that all falling objects should have the same steady acceleration ?

 

Snell
Galileo
Torricelli
Newton

 Around 1000AD in which country was the first magnetic compass used ?

 

Peru
China
Mexico
Egypt
In 1644 which scientist made the first barometer ?

 

Snell
Galileo
Torricelli
Boyle

 During 1543 who suggested the Sun was at the centre of the Universe with orbiting planets ?

 

Ptolemy
Aristotle
Democritus
Eratostethenes


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