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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. Natural theology in England continued well into the nineteenth century, where it finally encountered its nemesis in ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Freud.
(c) Foucault.
(d) Darwin.

2. In Chapter 5, the most scandalous physiology of all was "Man the Machine" of ________.
(a) Shaftesbury.
(b) La Mettrie.
(c) Vincennes.
(d) Boerhaave.

3. All of the following English philosophers had shown convincingly that knowledge about the physical world could not be obtained from first principles without resort to experiment except for whom?
(a) Newton.
(b) Boyle.
(c) Locke.
(d) Bacon.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, who became a famous doctor and chemist and initiated the Dutch program in his oration of 1715 entitled "De comparando certo in physicis"?
(a) Newton.
(b) Musschenbroek.
(c) Boerhaave.
(d) Mariotte.

5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
(a) Practical magic.
(b) Natural magic.
(c) Black magic.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?

2. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?

3. Who saw his physiology as an animata anatome, an experimental science that investigated and explained the special properties and functions of living matter without going beyond the information obtained from the senses?

4. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

5. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.

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