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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."
(a) Analysis.
(b) Reason.
(c) Religion.
(d) Calculus.

2. In Chapter 4, Abbe Condillac claimed that ________ was the best language because it had the best symbols.
(a) Chinese.
(b) Sign language.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Japanese.

3. What was the name of the philosopher who carried out the following experiments: kite, electric spider, and lightning bells to study electricity?
(a) The Jesuits.
(b) Stephen Gray.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet.

4. When experimentalists studied electricity, the ________ and the ________ were candidates for study because they both appeared to protect themselves electrically.
(a) Great white shark / dolphin.
(b) Leafy seadragon / Hagfish.
(c) Komodo dragon / sloth.
(d) Electric eel / sensitive plant.

5. In Chapter 5, who wrote, "We may conclude that the organs of the body have not always existed, but have been formed successively - no matter how this formation has been brought about"?
(a) Leibniz.
(b) Wolff.
(c) Spallanzani.
(d) Haller.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?

3. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?

4. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.

5. According to Chapter 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."

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