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Scientists and Their Inventions Quiz - Statistics
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| What simple measuring device is a semicircular disk graduated in degrees from 0 to 180? | protractor | 100%
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| Which shadow clock consists of a straight base with a raised crosspiece at one end? | sundial | 100%
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| Which is an early astronomical device for representing the great circles of the heavens? | armillary sphere | 0%
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| 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 | 0%
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| Which is an accurate, portable timekeeping device often used for determining longitude at sea? | chronometer | 0%
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| What surveyor's compass with diametrical projecting arms is sometimes called a “Holland circle”? | circumferentor | 0%
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| Which is an ancient device for measuring time by the gradual flow of water? | clepsydra | 0%
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| What is the mechanism in a watch or clock that controls the transfer of energy from the power source to the counting mechanism? | escapement | 0%
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| Which Scottish inventor discovered logarithms, by means of which addition replaces multiplication and subtraction replaces division? | John Napier | 0%
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| From the 16th century onward, the speed of a ship was measured by what English invention? | log | 0%
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| 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? | pantograph | 0%
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| Which astronomer, mathematician, and geographer developed a geocentric (earth-centered) model of the universe? | Ptolemy | 0%
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| What type of sundial consists of a gnomon that casts a shadow on a hollow sphere? | scaphe | 0%
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| The invention of which basic surveying instrument used to measure horizontal and vertical angles is often credited to English mathematician Leonard Digges? | theodolite | 0%
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| 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 | 0%
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