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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. According to the narrator in Chapter 2, the only machine employed by rational mechanics was ________.
(a) The car.
(b) The body.
(c) The soul.
(d) The mind.
2. 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) Varignon.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Newton.
(d) Fontenelle.
3. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Platoian.
(b) Aristotlian.
(c) Newtonian.
(d) Voltairian.
4. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?
(a) Tractrix.
(b) Cycloid.
(c) Isoperimeters.
(d) Involute.
5. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, who was one of the originators of the mechanical philosophy who believed there were no forces or powers in matter?
(a) Carnot.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Chapter 1, who made Newton into a supreme rationalist whose laws of motion were a priori deductions of pure thought?
2. 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?
3. What category of science, at the beginning of the Enlightenment, was "the science that teaches us the reasons and causes of all the effects that Nature produces," including both living and nonliving phenomena?
4. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
5. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.
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