Top 250+ Solved History and Philosophy of Science MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Who among the following was not a contemporary of Newton?
a. Robert Hooke
b. Leibniz
c. Huygens
d. Galileo
Q. ……….. built the first state observatory of modern times in Paris?
a. Leibniz
b. Newton
c. Claude Perrault
d. Boyle
Q. ………. was the first to show that light has a finite velocity.
a. Ole Christian Romer
b. Huygens
c. Newton
d. Boyle
Q. When Newton published the Principia, he was forced to acknowledge that one of the results obtained by this person. Who was this person?
a. Kepler
b. Leibniz
c. Hooke
d. Wren
Q. The controversy between Newton and Huygens was related to …….
a. Whether light consisted of waves or particles
b. The authorship of the discovery of laws of diffraction
c. Which of them had invented calculus
d. Mere personal rivalry
Q. Flamsteed was asked to set up an observatory in Greenwich because ……
a. England wanted to build the best observatory in the world.
b. Flamsteed was the most celebrated astronomer in Europe.
c. A very accurate star chart was needed to be preparewd for navigation.
d. There was a great deal of popular interest.
Q. Who described light as the ‘sensation of a stimulation of the retina’?
a. G.D. Cassini
b. Kepler
c. Newton
d. Hooke