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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. Who stated in the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?
(a) Lagrange.
(b) Basel.
(c) Hermann.
(d) Euler.

2. 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?
(a) Chemistry.
(b) Physics.
(c) Biology.
(d) Zoology.

3. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
(a) Newton / Aristotle.
(b) Giovanni Poleni / 'sGravesande.
(c) Voltaire / d'Alembert.
(d) 'sGravesande / Descartes.

4. 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?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Gabrielle de Breteuil.
(c) Chatelet.
(d) Bernoulli.

5. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
(a) D'Alembert.
(b) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.
(c) Cartesians.
(d) Leibniz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?

2. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."

3. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

4. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.

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

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