On May 3, 1715, a total solar eclipse occurred over Europe. A quiz on the event
QUESTION 1
The English astronomer ◣ is famous for, among other things, predicting the onset of the eclipse with an accuracy of four minutes. As a result, the event is also known as “◣’s eclipse”. Name ◣.
QUESTION 2
At the time the eclipse occurred, the date was April 22 and not May 3 (the year was 1715 in either case). The reason for this is that Great Britain would adopt the _________ ________ only 37 years later. Fill in the blanks.
QUESTION 3
Before the eclipse occurred, the English cartographer John Senex had published maps of the eclipse’s path created by both ◣ (in Q1) and Y in March. Y is famous for pushing the parliament of Great Britain to pass the Longitude Act in 1714. It promised rewards for anyone who devised a simple method to estimate a ship’s longitude while at sea. Name Y.
QUESTION 4
While ◣ (in Q1) had predicted the eclipse to within four minutes, he’d got the path of the eclipse wrong by around 30 km. ◣ later realised he’d used the wrong lunar _________ (a table that describes the path of the moon). Fill in the blank.
QUESTION 5
In 1686, ◣ (in Q1) coined the name ‘_____’ to refer to a period of about 6,585.3 days, which could be used to predict the occurrence of solar and lunar eclipses. ◣ said he was inspired by a term in an 11th century Byzantine book. Fill in the blank.
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