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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Mathematics and the Exact Sciences.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?
(a) Geology.
(b) Botany.
(c) Mixed mathematics.
(d) Meteorology.

2. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?
(a) Isaac Barrow.
(b) Euclid.
(c) Condillac.
(d) Aristotle.

3. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Poleni.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Galileo.

4. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?
(a) Franklin.
(b) Johnson.
(c) Newton.
(d) Eddison.

5. What was the name of the philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Maupertuis.
(b) Newton.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Condorcet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.

2. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?

3. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."

4. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

5. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.

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