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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 claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) L'Hopital.
(b) Varignon.
(c) Pierre Bayle.
(d) Kant.
2. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?
(a) Euclid.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Isaac Barrow.
(d) Condillac.
3. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.
(a) Voltairian.
(b) Newtonian.
(c) Aristotlian.
(d) Platoian.
4. Joseph Black studied ________, which had only recently been used as a medicine, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Quicklime.
(b) Limewater.
(c) Carbon monoxide.
(d) Magnesia alba.
5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
(a) Catenary.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Tractrix.
(d) Involute.
Short Answer Questions
1. Robert Whytt and Charles Aston studied the properties of ________ and ________ according, to the narrator in Chapter 4.
2. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
3. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
4. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
5. Which German metaphysician, when asked in 1785 if he believed he lived in an enlightened age, answered, "No, we are living in an age of enlightenment."
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