Science and the Enlightenment Quiz

Thomas L. Hankins

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Joseph Priestly and Henry Cavendish continued to use the term ________ for the action of fire in combustion, in Chapter 4. (from Chapter 4, Chemistry)

Vaporous.

Aeriform.

Succumb.

Phlogiston.

2.

The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3. (from Chapter 3, Experimental Physics)

Transmission fluid.

Acid fluid.

Subtle fluid.

Capacitor fluid.

3.

Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3? (from Chapter 3, Experimental Physics)

Robert Symmer.

Abbe Nollet.

William Gilbert.

John Cuthbertson.

4.

In Chapter 4, who found that many liquids cooled on evaporation: the more volatile the liquid, the greater the amount of cooling? (from Chapter 4, Chemistry)

Nollet.

Wallerius.

Cullen.

Black.

5.

In Chapter 5, Ingen-Housz was able to show in his "Experiments on Vegetables" that it was not , that was essential for the production of oxygen by the leaves. (from Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology)

Sunlight / heat.

Fertilizer / water.

Heat / fertilizer.

Sunlight / air.

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