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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey – Episode 3
WHEN KNOWLEDGE CONQUERED FEAR
Nullius in verba
FEAR
1. To nearly all cultures, comets were portents of ____________________.
2. “Disaster” derives from the Greek for “bad _____________________”.
3. Various African cultures interpreted comets to foretell
A. famine
B. war
C. flood
E. smallpox
F. death of a leader G. wildfire
D. disease
H. epidemic
KNOWLEDGE
4. Jan Oort wondered, “Where do all the ____________________ come from?”
5. Oort determined that our sun is about ______________________________ from the
center of the Milky Way.
6. What is the period of a comet in the Oort cloud?
CONQUER
7. Edmund Halley’s early accomplishment was the creation of a map of
8. The motto of the Royal Society of London translates to
“Question ____________________”
9. Robert Hooke (√ or X – and complete where needed)
___. left many portraits
___. was described as “handsome”
___. was a sought out guest at London’s cool parties
Named a basic “unit” of biology: the ____________________.
Derived the law of elasticity: ____________________ Law.
Perfected the ___________________ pump.
Experimented with
___cannabis
___cocaine
___absinthe
10. Who did Halley turn to when Hooke failed to explain the mathematics of
orbital motion?
11. Isaac Newton bio:
Born: ___Amidst Black Plague ___Easter ___Christmas ___Under a Comet
Family life: ___Good ___Bad
Robert Hooke: ___Friend/Ally ___Foe/Rival
Interests: ___Science ___Alchemy ___Music ___Biblical Chronology ___Poetry
12. The publication of Newton’s Principia (The Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy) was hindered/delayed/forestalled by the Royal Society’s publication
of a book on
13. The notion of God as clockmaker that Newton was born into: it ___ closed
down or ___opened up greater inquiry.
From Newton, it was understood that “the clockmaker” was ____________________.
The Principia also included the invention of ___________________________ and a
sound theoretical basis for ____________________ travel. Newton decoupled the
motions of the heavens from their ancient connections to our ________________.
14. Halley made the first map of the Earth’s _________________________________.
Halley determined a method for accurately determine the size of the
___________________ ____________________.
By using Newtonian gravity to successfully predict the return of a prominent
comet,
Halley beat the mystics at their own game: ____________________________.
15. Halley’s comet, like all the planets and asteroids, is doing what?
16. Newton’s final revenge against Hooke? (Perhaps.)
17. Halley’s comet appeared most recently in ________ and will return in ________.
18. What galactic collision is predicted by Newtonian gravity: