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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. Harvey followed the Aristotelian notion that the embryo began as a homogeneous mass and that the organs formed one after another from this homogeneous substance in a process called ________.
(a) Epigenesis.
(b) Symbiosis.
(c) Zygosis.
(d) Agenesis.

2. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.
(a) Rockefeller Foundation.
(b) Teyler Foundation.
(c) Ford Foundation.
(d) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

3. What was the name of the problem of finding the shape of a surface of maximum area for a perimeter of given length as found in Chapter 2?
(a) Involute.
(b) Cycloid.
(c) Brachistachrone.
(d) Isoperimeters.

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

5. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.
(a) Hermeneutics.
(b) Momentum.
(c) Impression.
(d) Formalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had written a preface to the second edition of the "Principia," supposedly with Newton's blessing, that described gravity as a force acting at a distance without any intervening medium?

2. ________, 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.

3. In Chapter 5, ________ and ________ found freshwater worms regenerated in the same fashion, and since worms were definitely animals, previous doubts about the animality of the polyp lost their force.

4. Who called natural history the "great root and mother" of all the sciences and made it the indispensable prelude to his experimental philosophy in Chapter 5?

5. Vis viva was thought by its creator ________ to be the dynamic quantity that was conserved in the universe, according to the narrator in Chapter 2.

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