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_______ wrote ''Seven Books on the Structure of the Human Body''.

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  1. Andreas Vesalius

  2. Gilbert

  3. Francis Willis

  4. Peter Lowe

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Seven books of the Structure of the Human Body was written by Andreas Vesalius. The book was published in 1543. It was a collection of speeches by Vesalius in Padua. This book is an advance description of human anatomy.  

Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India in the year _____.

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  1. 1498

  2. 1492

  3. 1490

  4. 1453

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who reached India by sea on May 17, 1498. His fleet reached Kappakadavu near Calicut in the current Indian state of Kerala.

Who laid the foundation of Mathematical astronomy?

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  1. Kepler

  2. Galileo

  3. Copernicus

  4. Ptolemy

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:
Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who discovered three laws of planetary motions as:
  1. the planets move in an elliptical orbit with the sun in the centre,
  2.  the time necessary to traverse an arc of a planetary orbit is proportional to the area of the sector between the central body and that arc,
  3. there is an exact relationship between the squares of the planets’ periodic times and the cubes of the radii of their orbits.
Due to this, he is regarded as the founder of Mathematical astronomy. These discoveries enlightened the works of Newton and Copernicus.