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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. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?
(a) Wolff.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Desaguliers.
(d) Chatelet.

2. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) A3E.
(b) R6Z.
(c) B3C.
(d) D2X.

3. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.
(a) 90.
(b) 8.
(c) 30.
(d) 75.

4. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
(a) John Cuthbertson.
(b) William Gilbert.
(c) Abbe Nollet.
(d) Robert Symmer.

5. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.
(a) Holland.
(b) America.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Electricians in the following countries concluded from their experiments that electrified seeds germinated faster, that electrified plants sent out shoots earlier, and that electrified animals were slightly lighter than non-electrified ones, except for which country?

2. ________, "curator of experiments" at the Royal Society, began research on the luminosity of phosphorus in 1705, under instruction from members of the society.

3. When experimentalists studied electricity, the ________ and the ________ were candidates for study because they both appeared to protect themselves electrically.

4. ________'s emphasis on the repulsive or expansive property of air, led naturally to an emphasis on the expansive properties of the even more subtle fluids of heat and electricity.

5. As a mathematician and rigorous metaphysician, ________ believed that the universe in all past, present, and future states followed a "preestablished harmony" laid down by God at the time of creation.

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