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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 5 states that ________ means an inquiry or investigation into nature.
(a) Physiology.
(b) Neurology.
(c) Natural history.
(d) Naturology.

2. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Musschenbroek.

3. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.
(a) Fontenelle.
(b) Locke.
(c) Newton.
(d) Boyle.

4. Who was the most important German chemist, whose papers in the "Memoires" of the Berlin Academy, during the 1740s and 1750s, earned the admiration of the French chemists?
(a) Baron d'Holbach.
(b) Nicolas Lemery.
(c) Andreas Sigismund Marggraf.
(d) Johann Juncker.

5. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) A3E.
(b) R6Z.
(c) B3C.
(d) D2X.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.

2. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."

3. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

4. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?

5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?

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