The Joy of Science #3 KEY

Match the person or term with the answer. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) e f a b d c g Pliny the Elder Ptolemy of Alexandria Aristotle the Greek Galileo Stonehenge Tomb at Newgrange, Ireland Retrograde a. philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great b. discovered imperfections in telelscope observations that fellow scientists refused to look at c. earliest example of human's faith in the predicability of nature d. a calendar e. Roman author of Natural History who cataloged facts of science and died when Mt. Vesuvius errupted f. had an earth-centered model of the universe and posited the epicycle g. When a planet seems to reverse course and backtrack through the heavens

True or False? 8) All scientists share the belief that the senses lie. a) True b) False 9) Scientific fraud is rare because the scientific method assures that deceptions will eventually be uncovered. a) True b) False 10) To Aristotle, the senses were infallible and logic and reason always took second place. a) True b) False 11) The Ptolemaic system (which posited that the earth is the center of the solar system) was actually pretty good at predicting the places of the planets, despite being very complex. a) True b) False