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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 term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Pantheism.
(b) Mechanism.
(c) Deism.
(d) Academism.

2. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Professors.
(b) Men of Honor.
(c) Masters.
(d) Men of Letters.

3. In Chapter 1, who claimed that his "principle of least action" proved the existence of God?
(a) Newton.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Pierre-Louis-Moreau de Maupertuis.
(d) Malebranche.

4. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?
(a) Musschenbroek.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Voltaire.

5. In Chapter 3, who noticed that when he pulled off his silk socks in the evening, "they frequently made a crackling or snapping noise" and emitted "sparks of fire"?
(a) Martinus van Marum.
(b) William Gilbert.
(c) John Cuthbertson.
(d) Robert Symmer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.

3. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."

4. 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) ________.

5. Leibniz, in his differential calculus, broke up the curve into many little straight lines, creating a ________, in Chapter 2 of "Science and the Enlightenment."

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