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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 car.
(b) The body.
(c) The soul.
(d) The mind.
2. What was the name of the leader of the natural history revival in England and the best naturalist of his age, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) Newton.
(b) Foucault.
(c) Ray.
(d) Darwin.
3. 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.
(a) Descartes.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Euler.
(d) Leibniz.
4. 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) Freud.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Foucault.
5. Who, as both a chemist and a physician, was the first to criticize mechanistic explanations while his books on chemistry and physiology influenced Europe?
(a) Cullen.
(b) Shaw.
(c) Stahl.
(d) Hoffmann.
Short Answer Questions
1. Newton had not made it clear whether the forces acting between the planets and between the parts of matter acted at a distance or through some intervening medium called a(n) ________.
2. 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?
3. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.
4. When experimentalists studied electricity, the ________ and the ________ were candidates for study because they both appeared to protect themselves electrically.
5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
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