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Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens
Directions: Answer the following questions as you watch the video.
1) What drove Galileo to question the Church’s view of the world?
2) What was the Church’s view of the world?
3) Why was Galileo imprisoned in his home?
4) Did Galileo believe in the Bible? Did he believe it was a good astronomy textbook?
5) When Galileo was born, what was believed to be true about the relationship between
the Earth and the Sun?
6) Who was the first to state that the Earth was the center of the universe?
7) What happened to Father Giordano Bruno for his unorthodox beliefs?
8) For the people of the world, what two functions did the sky serve?
9) What did the cycles of sunrise and sunset define for the people of the world?
10) What did the coming of the equinox bring each spring?
11) Earth was considered to be at the ______________ of the universe. The only thing
lower was ____________.
12) It was important for scholars to get away from Rome. Why?
13) According to Galileo, what thoughts did God share with humans?
14) What made PADUA free for scholars of the time?
15) What year was PADUA founded?
16) What was the first telescope used for?
17) Where did the first telescope lenses come from?
18) What skill did Galileo teach himself in order to create his own telescope?
19) What was the first official use for Galileo’s telescope?
20) Name two things Galileo observed on the moon’s surface.
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21) How many moons did Galileo discover around Jupiter?
22) Who worked out the system that explained the motions of the Sun, Moon, stars and
planets?
23) What was at the center of Ptolemy’s system of heavenly bodies?
24) Who first proposed that the Sun was at the center of our solar system?
25) What was the biggest problem with the Copernicus system?
26) Which planet held the greatest amount of evidence that the planets revolved around
the Sun?
27) What would happen to Galileo if he defied the inquisition?
28) What would happen to Galileo if he did not abandon the Copernican system of the
universe?
29) How did Galileo find physical proof that the Earth was moving?
30) Describe Galileo’s thought experiment with the horse.
31) What did Galileo name the dark blemishes on the Sun’s surface?
32) What was the name of Galileo’s book which he finished near the end of his life?
33) What great catastrophe struck Florence, Italy in 1630?
34) What happened to Galileo when he was faced with the inquisition over his book,
“Dialogue”?
35) What happened to his book?
36) What was Galileo’s final punishment?
37) In his studies of motion, how did Galileo slow down falling objects so he could their
acceleration?
38) Who did Galileo influence with his book on the physics of falling objects?
39) Which Pope and in which year did the Catholic Church admit a misunderstanding
between science and religion?