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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. 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?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Haller.
(c) D'Alembert.
(d) Glisson.

2. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
(a) Pastoral poem.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Limerick.
(d) Haiku.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.
(a) The soul.
(b) The body.
(c) The car.
(d) The mind.

4. According to Chapter 1, the noble Houyhnhnm in Jonathan Swift's ________ "thought Nature and Reason were sufficient guides for a reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what we ought to do, and what to avoid."
(a) The Day of Judgement.
(b) Gulliver's Travels.
(c) Twelve Articles.
(d) A Modest Proposal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?

2. Newton had not made it clear whether the forces acting between the planets and between the parts of matter acted at a distance or through some intervening medium called a(n) ________.

3. All of the following were the leading chemists and medical doctors, according to the beginning of Chapter 4, except for whom?

4. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."

5. Who was the extraordinary philosopher whose life and career exemplified many aspects of the Enlightenment, although he was not especially prominent as a natural philosopher nor was he the main protagonist in the vis viva controversy?

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