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

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

3. In Chapter 3, ________ and ________ were both led to the problem of specific heat by the discovery that a great deal of heat was required to melt ice, even though its temperature remained at the melting point.
(a) Galvani / Volta.
(b) Wilcke / Robison.
(c) Black / Coulomb.
(d) Black / Wilcke.

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) Mechanism.
(d) Deism.

5. According to Chapter 1, who made Newton into a supreme rationalist whose laws of motion were a priori deductions of pure thought?
(a) Roberts.
(b) Marquis de l'Hopital.
(c) Maupertuis.
(d) Fontenelle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became the leading literary figure of the Enlightenment and in 1734 published "Philosophical Letters"?

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

3. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.

4. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.

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

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