His most noteworthy discovery was that the Earth revolves around the sun. However, Galileo also made several other significant discoveries in physics.
Who discovered that the Earth revolves around the Sun?
a) Einstein
b) Copernicus
c) Newton
d) Kepler
In which year did Galileo state that the Earth revolves around the Sun?
a) 1632
b) 1636
c) 1639
d) 1654
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1632 First, the Earth rotates on its own axis; it revolves around the Sun. Yes, Galileo Galilei did publish, with the permission of the church, a description of both the heliocentric and geocentric theories of the solar system in 1632. He called it: 'Dialog Concerning the Two Chief World systems |
The light from the Sun reaches the Earth in….
a) 6 minutes
b) 7 minutes
c) 8 minutes
d) 9 minutes
If it is summer, the hemisphere will be tilted
a) Towards the sun
b) Away from the sun
c) Near the sun
d) None of these
If the earth was the tilted on its axis there would be no………..
a) Seasons
b) Day and night
c) Rain
d) Beat
Where there is summer in the northern hemisphere, there is………..…in the southern hemisphere.
a) Summer
b) Winter
c) Spring
d) autumn
It was Nicolaus Copernicus, who first officially putforth the idea that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not vice versa.
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