PLZ HELP UNIT TEST REVIEW 45 POINTS
Read the passage.
If you look at the stars . . . you will see those stars so minute that it would seem as though nothing could be smaller; it is in fact their great distance which is the reason of their diminution, for many of them are very many times larger than the star which is the earth with water. Now reflect what this our star must look like at such a distance, and then consider how many stars might be added—both in longitude and latitude—between those stars which are scattered over the darkened sky.
–"In Praise of the Sun,”
Leonardo da Vinci
Which evidence from the passage supports da Vinci’s conclusion that the size of the stars cannot be determined by how they appear in the sky?
“If you look at the stars . . . it would seem as though nothing could be smaller.”
“It is in fact their great distance which is the reason of their diminution.”
“Many of them are very many times larger than the star which is the earth with water.”
“Now reflect what this our star must look like at such a distance, and then consider how many stars might be added.”
