Packet 4: Bonus 15
Francis Cleyn’s painting John Bankes and His Tutor depicts a book by this man, whose biographer Nick Wilding uncovered a modern “forgery factory.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this man whose cloistered daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, wrote letters examined in a biography by Dava Sobel. Observations by Thomas Harriot preceded this man’s treatise Sidereus Nuncius.
ANSWER: Galileo [or Galileo Galilei; or Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei; accept Galileo’s Daughter]
[10h] Galileo’s Assayer states that this metaphorical object is “written in the language of mathematics.” For Philippe van Lansberge and John Wilkins, this object’s study by man’s reason complemented the revelation of scripture.
ANSWER: Book of Nature [or Liber naturae or Libro della natura; accept Book of the World or Liber mundi or Libro del mondo; accept Book of Creatures or Liber creaturarum or Libro delle creature; prompt on Two Books or Due libri or Duo libri; reject “Book” or “Nature” or “the world”]
[10e] Alexandre Koyré (“kwah-RAY”) wrote that Galileo faked experiments with these simple machines whose equilibrium was proven by Simon Stevin. Two of these machines with a tilted surface can form a wedge.
ANSWER: inclined plane [or ramp] (Claims that many of Galileo’s experiments were faked or not performed empirically were advanced by both Koyré and Marin Mersenne, but they are not supported by current evidence.)
<Michigan, Other Academic> | D. Prelims 4 - Toronto B + Harvard + Michigan + Minnesota
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 12.86 | 91% | 33% | 5% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruin | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | M |
| Cambridge | UCF | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | HE |
| Columbia A | British Columbia | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Columbia B | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Cornell | Maryland A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgetown | Ohio State | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Georgia Tech A | Swarthmore | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Georgia Tech C | Illinois B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Johns Hopkins | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| MIT | Waterloo | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| NYU A | Vanderbilt | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern A | Stanford A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Northwestern B | Illinois A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Penn State | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Pittsburgh | Indiana | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Rutgers | Virginia | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Texas | WashU | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| UC Berkeley A | North Carolina | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UC Berkeley B | Stanford B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| UCLA | Toronto A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Virginia Tech | Maryland B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Site | 2026-04-17 | ✓ | 21 | 12.86 | 91% | 33% | 5% |