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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. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?
(a) Condillac.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Isaac Barrow.
(d) Euclid.

2. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) D2X.
(b) A3E.
(c) B3C.
(d) R6Z.

3. The ________, who had been leaders in experimental physics during the seventeenth century, continued to hold a prominent place until their order was suppressed in 1773.
(a) Buddist.
(b) Jesuits.
(c) Christians.
(d) Jewish.

4. 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) Academism.
(b) Pantheism.
(c) Deism.
(d) Mechanism.

5. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.
(a) Locke.
(b) Fontenelle.
(c) Newton.
(d) Boyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the beginning of Chapter 1, in 1759 the French mathematician ________ described a revolution that he saw taking place in natural philosophy.

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?

3. Who had written a preface to the second edition of the "Principia," supposedly with Newton's blessing, that described gravity as a force acting at a distance without any intervening medium?

4. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?

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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