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In the modern heliocentric order, which planet orbits between Earth and Jupiter?
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Mars
Which bishop and friend of Copernicus encouraged him to publish De revolutionibus?
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Tiedemann Giese
Which papal secretary gave a 1533 Rome lecture on Copernicus's heliocentric theory?
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Johann Widmannstetter
Which Jesuit astronomer disputed Galileo's interpretation of sunspots?
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Christoph Scheiner
Which 1613 Galileo work defended the Copernican view while discussing sunspots?
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Letters on Sunspots
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Which bishop and friend of Copernicus encouraged him to publish De revolutionibus?
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Tiedemann Giese
Which papal secretary gave a 1533 Rome lecture on Copernicus's heliocentric theory?
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Johann Widmannstetter
Which Jesuit astronomer disputed Galileo's interpretation of sunspots?
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Christoph Scheiner
Which 1613 Galileo work defended the Copernican view while discussing sunspots?
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Letters on Sunspots
Which planet has the shortest orbital period around the Sun?
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Mercury
Which 1651 Riccioli book assessed many arguments about Earth's motion?
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Almagestum Novum
Which Hellenistic astronomer is known as a follower of Aristarchus's heliocentrism?
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Seleucus of Seleucia
Which work by Archimedes preserves a report of Aristarchus's Sun-centered hypothesis?
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The Sand Reckoner
Which 1551 Erasmus Reinhold tables helped spread Copernican calculation methods?
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Prutenic Tables