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Scientists and Their Inventions Quiz
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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