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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a letter of September 21, 1781, who wrote to his mentor Jean d'Alembert that he feared mathematics had reached its limit?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
(c) Bernard Fontenelle.
(d) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.

2. The concept of a ________ was a necessary step in the process of quantification, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) Capacitor fluid.
(b) Acid fluid.
(c) Subtle fluid.
(d) Transmission fluid.

3. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
(a) Isoperimeters.
(b) Cycloid.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Brachistachrone.

4. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
(a) Cartesians.
(b) Leibniz.
(c) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.
(d) D'Alembert.

5. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
(a) Scientific Revolution.
(b) American Revolution.
(c) French Revolution.
(d) Enlightenment Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. All of the following were the leading chemists and medical doctors, according to the beginning of Chapter 4, except for whom?

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. 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. What was the name of the problem of finding the shape of a surface of maximum area for a perimeter of given length as found in Chapter 2?

5. 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?

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