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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 4, Turgot concluded from the experiments of ________ and ________ on evaporation in a vacuum that extensibility was a property not only of air but of all substances in a vaporous state.
(a) Hales / Brockhausen.
(b) Newton / Franklin.
(c) Nollet / Wallerius.
(d) Black / Cullen.

2. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?
(a) Lavoisier.
(b) Cullen.
(c) Newton.
(d) Black.

3. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Jean Lerond d'Alembert.
(c) Malebranche.
(d) Newton.

4. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.
(a) America.
(b) Africa.
(c) England.
(d) Germany.

5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
(a) Natural magic.
(b) Practical magic.
(c) Black magic.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the preface to his "Histoire" of the Paris Academy of Science, who argued in 1699 that the new "geometric spirit" could also improve works on politics, morals, literary criticism, and even public speaking?

2. Who saw his physiology as an animata anatome, an experimental science that investigated and explained the special properties and functions of living matter without going beyond the information obtained from the senses?

3. In Chapter 4, Abbe Condillac claimed that ________ was the best language because it had the best symbols.

4. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?

5. According to Chapter 3, ________ was the most volatile and least substantial of all the elements; therefore, it was the chief agent of change, as witnessed by its role in combustion, fermentation, decomposition, and evaporation.

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