Chapter 2: Aberrations Of Light

Question 0

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot,13

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“we tend not to be especially critical when presented with evidence that seems to confirm our prejudices.”

Question 1

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 10

Answer 1

“Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.”

Question 2

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot

Answer 2

Copernicus-1550s, SUN-Centered universe

Question 3

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 16

Answer 3

“The long debated annual parallax was at last discovered–not by better arguments, but by better instruments..not by thought and opinion but observation and experimentation.”