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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. 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) Brachistachrone.
(c) Cycloid.
(d) Isoperimeters.

2. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

3. Before 1740, the standard authorities in physiology were all of the following individuals except for whom?
(a) Bellini.
(b) Boerhaave.
(c) Borelli.
(d) Newton.

4. What was Diderot's first philosophical work, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) On the Interpretation of Nature.
(b) The Letter on the Blind.
(c) Philosophical Thoughts.
(d) Encyclopedie.

5. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Locke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.

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 the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?

4. In Chapter 5, the most scandalous physiology of all was "Man the Machine" of ________.

5. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.

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