501 Critical Reading Questions

a.
Physics Professor, Trinity College
b.
Trinity Professor of Optics
c.
Professor of Calculus at Trinity College
d.
Professor of Astronomy at Lucasian College
e.
Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge
361.
In line 36, what does the term 
clockwork universe
most nearly mean?
a.
eighteenth-century government
b.
the international dateline
c.
Newton’s system of latitude
d.
Newton’s system of longitude
e.
Newton’s Laws of Motion
362.
According to the passage, how did Newton affect Kepler’s work?
a.
He discredited his theory at Cambridge, choosing to read
Descartes instead.
b.
He provides an explanation of Kepler’s laws of planetary
motion.
c.
He convinced the Dean to teach Kepler, Descartes, Galileo, and
Copernicus instead of Aristotle.
d.
He showed how Copernicus was a superior astronomer to
Kepler.
e.
He did not understand Kepler’s laws, so he rewrote them in
English.
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