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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Chemistry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Jean d'Alembert.
(c) Locke.
(d) Boerhaave.

2. In 1769, ________, a student of Joseph Black's at Glasgow, measured the repulsion between charges with an apparatus that balanced the electrical repulsion against gravitational attraction.
(a) John Robison.
(b) Charles Augustin Coulomb.
(c) Luigi Galvani.
(d) Volta.

3. All of the following philosophers at the University of Leiden followed Newton's lead in organizing experiments except for whom?
(a) Boerhaave.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Locke.
(d) Musschenbroek.

4. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
(a) Light.
(b) Heat.
(c) Electricity.
(d) Wood.

5. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following English philosophers had shown convincingly that knowledge about the physical world could not be obtained from first principles without resort to experiment except for whom?

2. In 1757, thirty years after Hales described his experiments with ________, Joseph Black discovered the phenomenon of ________.

3. 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.

4. 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?

5. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

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