Download Galileo`s Battle for the Heavens

World History CP
Mr. Terry
Name: __________________________
Date: ___________________________
Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens: Video Learning
Available at PBS: http://video.pbs.org/video/2036276385/
1. What institution did Galileo come into conflict with? Why?
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2. During Galileo’s time, the popular belief about the sun and the Earth was that
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3. This geocentric theory of the universe was originally set out by the philosopher
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4. The Medieval universities required students to pass 7 basic subjects before you could study
philosophy and theology. Of these, the Vatican considered astronomy to be
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5. Galileo studied three different subjects at the University:
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6. To Galileo, the universe could only be understood only if one studied the language of
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7. How did Galileo set out to make money with his improved version of the telescope?
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8. What was Galileo surprised to discover when he first looked at the moon through his telescope?
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9. What was the first planet that Galileo looked at through his telescope? ____________________.
10. Ancient astronomers, such as ____________________, tried to explain how celestial bodies moved
by assuming they were attached to crystal spheres.
11. The Ptolemaic system was useful if you just wanted to
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12. Nicolas Copernicus noticed the math related to planetary motion would be more simple if
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13. In the Copernican system the Earth has 2 motions:
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World History CP
Name: __________________________
Mr. Terry
Date: ___________________________
14. Galileo noticed that Venus went through phases just as the Moon does. From this, he concluded
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15. What did the Catholic Church do to argue that Galileo was wrong?
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16. What was the Church’s motivation for torturing and executing heretics?
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17. What did Galileo hope to do at the Roman Inquisition?
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18. What did the Inquisition decide with regard to Copernicus’s work and Galileo?
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19. “ ‘I don’t know.’ What a beautiful expression that is.” Explain this statement.
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20. Why did Catholic theologians not like Galileo’s theory about sunspots?
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21. Why was Pope Urban VIII different from previous popes and what did this mean for Galileo?
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22. Why did the Church eventually condemn Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World ?
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23. What was Galileo charged with by the Inquisition? ___________________________________
24. Why did the Pope and clergy abandon trying to defend Galileo?
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