Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Thomas L. Hankins
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Science and the Enlightenment Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

Thomas L. Hankins
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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. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."
(a) Reason.
(b) Religion.
(c) Analysis.
(d) Calculus.

2. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."
(a) Alexis-Claude Clairaut.
(b) Maupertuis.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Malebranche.

3. Who was France's greatest hero of the Enlightenment partly because he was from England, the source of free thought and liberty and partly because he had solved the riddle of the planets, showing that their motions obeyed the same laws as motions on earth?
(a) Swift.
(b) Newton.
(c) Fontenelle.
(d) Boyle.

4. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
(a) Christianity.
(b) Mechanics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Physics.

5. What area of study in the Middle Ages had been the domain of those truths that could be found through the use of reason alone without the revelation of the Bible?
(a) Mied mathematics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Natural theology.
(d) Physiology.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, who claimed that his "principle of least action" proved the existence of God?

2. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.

3. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?

4. ________, "curator of experiments" at the Royal Society, began research on the luminosity of phosphorus in 1705, under instruction from members of the society.

5. The discipline of physics had originally been created by ________, and it had nothing to do with experiment or quantitative measure nor was it limited to the inorganic world.

(see the answer key)

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