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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Experimental Physics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the philosopher who was the leading scientific experimenter in seventeenth-century England, who had agreed that he had never seen any "inanimate production of nature, or of chance, whose contrivance was comparable to that of the meanest limb of the despicabilist animal"?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Locke.
(c) Robert Boyle.
(d) Swift.

2. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
(a) Robert Symmer.
(b) Abbe Nollet.
(c) William Gilbert.
(d) John Cuthbertson.

3. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?
(a) Newton.
(b) Franklin.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Eddison.

4. 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) Biology.
(b) Chemistry.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Physics.

5. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.
(a) Air.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water.
(d) Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.

3. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.

4. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.

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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