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Unit Test

Question 3 • NC-World History: Issues and Patterns

How did Galileo Galilei contribute to modern science? Select all that apply.

Answer
A
He contributed to laws of motion.
B
He improved the telescope.
C
He supported Copernicus’s ideas.
D
He developed calculus.
E
He invented the printing press.

Explanation

Galileo studied falling bodies and motion, helping establish ideas that contributed to the laws of motion. He improved the telescope and used it to make astronomical observations that supported Copernicus’s model of a Sun-centered solar system. Calculus was developed later by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and the printing press was invented centuries earlier by Johannes Gutenberg.

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