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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 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?
(a) Newton.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Fontenelle.
(d) Varignon.

2. The narrator explains that the most important elements for the Chemical Revolution were ________ and ________.
(a) Air / Earth.
(b) Fire / Earth.
(c) Air / fire.
(d) Earth / Water.

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

4. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.
(a) Turgot.
(b) Black.
(c) Macquer.
(d) Bayen.

5. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.
(a) Ford Foundation.
(b) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
(c) Rockefeller Foundation.
(d) Teyler Foundation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who called natural history the "great root and mother" of all the sciences and made it the indispensable prelude to his experimental philosophy in Chapter 5?

2. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.

3. According to Chapter 4, what is another name for nitrous oxide?

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. Harvey followed the Aristotelian notion that the embryo began as a homogeneous mass and that the organs formed one after another from this homogeneous substance in a process called ________.

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