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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. ________, working with the knowledge of latent heat, realized that a big difference in heat could be obtained with a small difference in temperature, if one compared water and ice.
(a) Black.
(b) Newton.
(c) Roebuck.
(d) Fordyce.

2. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Platoian.
(b) Aristotlian.
(c) Newtonian.
(d) Voltairian.

3. Who carried rational mechanics to the highest point of generality and abstraction that it was to reach during the Enlightenment?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Hermann.
(c) Lagrange.
(d) Daniel.

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?
(a) Jean d'Alembert.
(b) Boerhaave.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Locke.

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 5, who coined the word "spermatozoon" in 1827?
(a) Swammerdam.
(b) Hartsoeker.
(c) Von Baer.
(d) Linnaeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1688, who had shown that the insect larva, pupa, and imago can exist simultaneously, all nested one within the other?

2. In his dialogue "D'Alembert's Dream," Diderot brought together the ideas of all of the following individuals except for whom?

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?

4. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.

5. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?

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