From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Game 9, Round 6 - Science - Foundational Discoveries and Theories   
   >   
   > 1. Although some ancient philosophers believed otherwise, until 1543   
   >    it was generally accepted that the Sun, Moon, stars, and planets   
   >    all moved in circles around the Earth.  Then a Polish astronomer   
   >    dared to write a book stating that the Earth and planets moved   
   >    around the Sun.  Who was he?   
      
   Johannes Kepler   
      
   > 2. About 70 years later, Galileo helped prove the point by using   
   >    his telescope to discover some objects that definitely orbited   
   >    something other than the Earth.  In fact he found four of them.   
   >    What objects?  Name or describe one or more of them.   
      
   Moons of Jupiter   
      
   > 3. Which German astronomer worked out in 1609 that the planets orbit   
   >    the Sun, not in circular orbits, but elliptical ones?  His main   
   >    source for this conclusion was observational data collected by   
   >    Tycho Brahe of Denmark.   
      
   Johannes Kepler   
      
   > 4. In 1924, using a new telescope, this American astronomer   
   >    proved the existence of what we now call galaxies.  Then in 1929   
   >    he discovered that the more distant a galaxy is, the faster it   
   >    is moving away from us -- in other words, that the whole universe   
   >    is in a continuous and uniform state of expansion.  Name him.   
      
   Hubble   
      
   > 7. In 1752 this scientist in what is now the US proved that   
   >    lightning is a form of electricity.  Who?   
      
   Benjamin Franlin   
      
   > 9. In the 1770s one English and one French chemist between them   
   >    accomplished the following:  They learned that air was a mixture   
   >    of substances, they isolated oxygen from it, and they learned   
   >    that when something burns it does not emit some substance   
   >    already contained in it, but rather combines with oxygen.   
   >    Name either man.   
      
   Since I'm Swedish, I will of course answer Scheele.   
      
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