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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. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.
(a) The body.
(b) The car.
(c) The mind.
(d) The soul.

2. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
(a) Tractrix.
(b) Cycloid.
(c) Isoperimeters.
(d) Brachistachrone.

3. 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) Boerhaave.
(c) Mariotte.
(d) Musschenbroek.

4. Who confirmed Reaumur's experiments, did others on the digestive action of saliva, and performed the experiments on himself?
(a) Stevens.
(b) Spallanzani.
(c) Van Helmont.
(d) Borelli.

5. In a letter of September 21, 1781, who wrote to his mentor Jean d'Alembert that he feared mathematics had reached its limit?
(a) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.
(b) Bernard Fontenelle.
(c) Diderot.
(d) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.

3. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?

4. 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?

5. Natural theology in England continued well into the nineteenth century, where it finally encountered its nemesis in ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.

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