• 1. 
    Invented in 1603 by German astronomer Christoph Scheiner, which instrument was used for copying a drawing on an enlarged or a reduced scale in a given ratio?

  • camera lucida
  • pictograph
  • pantograph
  • protractor
  • 2. 
    From the 16th century onward, the speed of a ship was measured by what English invention?

  • log
  • knot
  • nautilus
  • recorder
  • 3. 
    Which astronomer, mathematician, and geographer developed a geocentric (earth-centered) model of the universe?

  • Hipparchus
  • Aristotle
  • Ptolemy
  • Aryabhata
  • 4. 
    Which shadow clock consists of a straight base with a raised crosspiece at one end?

  • sundial
  • obelisk
  • astrolabe
  • time ball
  • 5. 
    Which is an accurate, portable timekeeping device often used for determining longitude at sea?

  • chronometer
  • hourglass
  • pendulum clock
  • Henlein watch
  • 6. 
    Which is an ancient device for measuring time by the gradual flow of water?

  • clepsydra
  • astrolabe
  • merkhet
  • sundial
  • 7. 
    What is the mechanism in a watch or clock that controls the transfer of energy from the power source to the counting mechanism?

  • pendulum
  • escapement
  • chronograph
  • bezel
  • 8. 
    What type of sundial consists of a gnomon that casts a shadow on a hollow sphere?

  • Azimuth dial
  • scaphe
  • pros ta historoumena
  • equatorial dial
  • 9. 
    Which is an early astronomical device for representing the great circles of the heavens?

  • celatone
  • bolometer
  • cosmolabe
  • armillary sphere
  • 10. 
    What simple measuring device is a semicircular disk graduated in degrees from 0 to 180?

  • compass
  • protractor
  • ruler
  • abacus
  • 11. 
    What early scientific instrument used for reckoning time and for observational purposes came into wide use beginning in the early Middle Ages in Europe and the Islamic world?

  • astrolabe
  • cross-staff
  • sextant
  • backstaff
  • 12. 
    Which is a Chinese jade form found in the Shang and Zhou dynasties that may have been used as an astronomical instrument to plot the location of the stars?

  • xuanji
  • cong
  • bi
  • gua sha
  • 13. 
    Which Scottish inventor discovered logarithms, by means of which addition replaces multiplication and subtraction replaces division?

  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Colin Maclaurin
  • Sheila Scott Macintyre
  • John Napier
  • 14. 
    The invention of which basic surveying instrument used to measure horizontal and vertical angles is often credited to English mathematician Leonard Digges?

  • prism pole
  • tribrach
  • theodolite
  • Gammon Reel
  • 15. 
    What surveyor's compass with diametrical projecting arms is sometimes called a “Holland circle”?

  • orienteering compass
  • astrocompass
  • circumferentor
  • prismatic compass
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