Greek View of Motion and the Universe

Question 1

Founder of Ionian School of Philosophies

Answer 1

Thales of Miletus

Question 2

He proposed that a cylindrical earth is rest in the center of the universe surrounded by air.

Answer 2

Anaximander

Question 3

Said that light traveled FAST but not INFINITE speed

Answer 3

Empedocles

Question 5

Suggested that the stars were fixed onto a solid transparent crystalline sphere and rotated across the sky

Answer 5

Anaximenes

Question 6

According to him the earth is formed within a vortex

Answer 6

Empedocles

Question 7

Believed in well ordered harmonious universe

Answer 7

Pythagoras

Question 8

Model that states that earth moved around a central fire

Answer 8

Pythagorean Model

Question 9

Proposed that the milky way was composed of thousand of stars

Answer 9

Democritus

Question 10

Proposed that everything orbits in a tilted plane or equinoxes

Answer 10

Hipparchus

Question 11

Stated that the moon shine by reflected sunlight had encounter mountains

First to exclaim that the sun is not a GOD

Answer 11

Anaxagoras

Question 12

Believed that the stars, sun and moon were fixed

Answer 12

Plato

Question 13

Father of Modern Astronomy

Answer 13

Hipparchus

Question 14

Father of Trigonometry

Answer 14

Hipparchus

Question 15

How did Hipparchus measure or catalog stars? State the number range

Answer 15

By their brightness

1 being the brightest and
6 being the dimmest

Question 16

Discovered that the earth is round by observing the shadow of the earth in a lunar eclipse

Answer 16

Aristotle

Question 17

What is diurnal motion?

Answer 17

Daily motion of earth

Question 18

Who proposed the Julian Calendar?

Answer 18

Erastothenes

Question 19

What is an annual motion?

Answer 19

1 complete revolution of the earth around the sun

Question 20

Reefers to an object that spins in the same direction as it’s orbit

Answer 20

Prograde

Question 21

Founded his own school of Lyceum in Athens

Answer 21

Aristotle

Question 23

Refers to an object that spins in the opposite direction of it’s orbit

Answer 23

Retrograde

Question 25

He believed that the Earth was the center of the universe

Answer 25

Aristotle

Question 26

Was debated to be either a group of mathematicians or an actual mathematician

Answer 26

Euclid

Question 27

Who was the great teacher of Aristotle

Answer 27

Plato

Question 32

First to introduce the 4 elements: fire, earth, air, water

Answer 32

Empedocles

Question 34

First to catalog stats

Answer 34

Hipparchus