Early telescopes/Quiz

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Early telescopes is a lecture for the instruments project of the same name studying the possibility that telescopes in some form have been used from the Earth's surface for millennia.

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Quiz[edit]







  

1

Yes or No, The early telescopes as manufactured in the Netherlands about 1610 (390 b2k) are refracting.

Yes
No

2

True or False, Galileo always insisted that the ancients had telescopes.

TRUE
FALSE

3

Complete the text:

The Russians have found

lenses, perfectly spherical and of great precision, in ancient Egypt, during the

-dominated period.

4

Yes or No, The first known practical telescopes were invented in the Netherlands at the beginning of the 17th century, using glass lenses.

Yes
No

5

True or False, As many Italians were in the Netherlands fighting the Spanish, some with experience in grinding lenses for optical uses, it is likely a few carried with them optical transits such as the one dated to 1590 made in Italy which were so common as to be taken for granted by historians, modifiable into telescopes.

TRUE
FALSE

6

Complete the text:

Beeckman recorded in his journal that during one of these lessons Johannes

told him that the first telescope in the Netherlands had been made in

by his father, after the model of an instrument in the possession of an

. This instrument bore the date of

.

7

Yes or No, c. 3500 B.C. Phoenicians cooking on sand discover glass.

Yes
No

8

True or False, The first occurrence of the word "theodolite" is found in the surveying textbook A geometric practice named Pantometria (1571) by Leonard Digges, which was published posthumously by his son, Thomas Digges.

TRUE
FALSE

9

The first instrument more like a true theodolite was likely the one built by Joshua Habermel in Germany in 1576, complete with compass and

.

10

True or False, Although lost to Europe since the terminus of the Greco-Roman era, Gerbert reintroduced the astronomical armillary sphere to Latin Europe via Al-Andalus in the late 10th century.

TRUE
FALSE


Hypotheses[edit]

  1. A careful and systematic comparison of a telescope and a torch that look like the item balancing or attached to the armillary sphere should be able differentiate between a telescope and a torch.

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External links[edit]

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