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Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī: Quiz
  
  

Question 1: His work was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century, and contributed to the rebirth of a mathematically-based ________ in Christian Europe.
AstronomySunAstrophysicsStar

Question 2: The crater Arzachel on the ________ is named after him.
Io (moon)Mercury (planet)Ganymede (moon)Moon

Question 3: He lived in Toledo in Castile, ________ (now Spain).
Al-AndalusIslamic Golden AgeHispaniaIslamic contributions to Medieval Europe

Question 4: He was the first to prove conclusively the motion of the ________ relative to the fixed background of the stars.
ApsisOrbital eccentricityOrbitOrbital period

Question 5: [1] Al-Zarqali also built a ________ capable of determining the hours of the day and night and indicating the days of the lunar months.
Water clockIslamic calendarTimeYear

Question 6: Al-Zarqālī corrected Ptolemy's geographical data, specifically the length of the ________.
Atlantic OceanPacific OceanMediterranean SeaIndian Ocean

Question 7: He constructed a flat ________ that was 'universal,' for it could be used at any latitude.
AlhazenAbu Rayhan BiruniMuhammad ibn Mūsā al-KhwārizmīAstrolabe

Question 8: [4] Some writers have misinterpreted al-Zarqālī's description of an earth-centered oval path for the center of the planet's epicycle as an anticipation of ________'s sun-centered elliptical paths for the planets.
Scientific revolutionIsaac NewtonGalileo GalileiJohannes Kepler

Question 9: In dealing with Ptolemy's complex model for the planet Mercury, in which the center of the ________ moves on a secondary epicycle, al-Zarqālī noted that the path of the center of the primary epicycle is not a circle, as it is for the other planets.
Geocentric modelHeliocentrismAlmagestDeferent and epicycle
















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