Lesson test: The trial

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The trial

1.[3p]
What condition did Bellarmine's letter to Foscarini set out?

If there were a true demonstration of the earth's motion, the contrary scriptures would have to be reread

Correct

That no evidence about nature could ever bear on the reading of scripture

The answer is: If there were a true demonstration of the earth's motion, the contrary scriptures would have to be reread

That the earth's motion was a matter of indifference to the Church

The answer is: If there were a true demonstration of the earth's motion, the contrary scriptures would have to be reread

That Copernicus's book should be burned

The answer is: If there were a true demonstration of the earth's motion, the contrary scriptures would have to be reread

2.[2p]
Which cardinal wrote that letter, and admonished Galileo in 1616? Surname only.

CorrectNot quite: Bellarmine

3.[3p]
Why does Galileo's tide argument fail?

Its mechanism gives one high tide a day, while the observed tide is twice in 24 hours and 50 minutes

Correct

It requires the moon to act at a distance

The answer is: Its mechanism gives one high tide a day, while the observed tide is twice in 24 hours and 50 minutes

It predicts tides far larger than any observed

The answer is: Its mechanism gives one high tide a day, while the observed tide is twice in 24 hours and 50 minutes

It assumes the earth is stationary

The answer is: Its mechanism gives one high tide a day, while the observed tide is twice in 24 hours and 50 minutes

4.[2p]
The earth's orbital speed is 29.79 km/s and its equatorial surface speed is 0.4646 km/s. By what percentage does Galileo's mechanism modulate a point's speed through space?

CorrectNot quite: 1.56

5.[3p]
Why did Galileo reject the correlation between the tides and the moon?

It could only be stated as an influence acting across empty space, which the mechanical outlook was meant to abolish

Correct

The correlation had not yet been observed by anyone

The answer is: It could only be stated as an influence acting across empty space, which the mechanical outlook was meant to abolish

It contradicted his own measurements of tidal timing

The answer is: It could only be stated as an influence acting across empty space, which the mechanical outlook was meant to abolish

The Church had forbidden discussion of the moon

The answer is: It could only be stated as an influence acting across empty space, which the mechanical outlook was meant to abolish

6.[2p]
The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems set the Copernican arrangement against Ptolemy's, and left out the Tychonic system altogether.

True

Correct

False

The answer is: True

7.[3p]
Why did the Jesuit astronomers of the Collegio Romano mostly adopt the Tychonic system?

It fitted every telescopic observation and required no physics of a moving earth

Correct

They had not seen the telescopic discoveries

The answer is: It fitted every telescopic observation and required no physics of a moving earth

Tycho had been a Catholic

The answer is: It fitted every telescopic observation and required no physics of a moving earth

It gave more accurate tables than Kepler's

The answer is: It fitted every telescopic observation and required no physics of a moving earth

8.[3p]
Which of these are accurate about the events of 1616?

Select all that apply

De revolutionibus was suspended until corrected rather than banned outright

Correct

Galileo himself was not condemned

Correct

The consultants judged the sun's immobility to be absurd in philosophy and formally heretical

Correct

Galileo was sentenced to house arrest

The answer is: De revolutionibus was suspended until corrected rather than banned outright, Galileo himself was not condemned, The consultants judged the sun's immobility to be absurd in philosophy and formally heretical

9.[2p]
Put these in the order they happened.

Bellarmine writes to Foscarini setting his condition
Barberini becomes Pope Urban VIII
The Dialogue is licensed and printed in Florence
The Congregation of the Index suspends De revolutionibus
Galileo abjures and is placed under house arrest

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a, b, c, d, e

1.[3p] What condition did Bellarmine's letter to Foscarini set out?

2.[2p] Which cardinal wrote that letter, and admonished Galileo in 1616? Surname only.

3.[3p] Why does Galileo's tide argument fail?

4.[2p] The earth's orbital speed is 29.79 km/s and its equatorial surface speed is 0.4646 km/s. By what percentage does Galileo's mechanism modulate a point's speed through space?

5.[3p] Why did Galileo reject the correlation between the tides and the moon?

6.[2p] The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems set the Copernican arrangement against Ptolemy's, and left out the Tychonic system altogether.

7.[3p] Why did the Jesuit astronomers of the Collegio Romano mostly adopt the Tychonic system?

8.[3p] Which of these are accurate about the events of 1616?

9.[2p] Put these in the order they happened.

1.[3p]
What condition did Bellarmine's letter to Foscarini set out?

2.[2p]
Which cardinal wrote that letter, and admonished Galileo in 1616? Surname only.

3.[3p]
Why does Galileo's tide argument fail?

4.[2p]
The earth's orbital speed is 29.79 km/s and its equatorial surface speed is 0.4646 km/s. By what percentage does Galileo's mechanism modulate a point's speed through space?

5.[3p]
Why did Galileo reject the correlation between the tides and the moon?

6.[2p]
The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems set the Copernican arrangement against Ptolemy's, and left out the Tychonic system altogether.

7.[3p]
Why did the Jesuit astronomers of the Collegio Romano mostly adopt the Tychonic system?

8.[3p]
Which of these are accurate about the events of 1616?

9.[2p]
Put these in the order they happened.