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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. Vis viva was thought by its creator ________ to be the dynamic quantity that was conserved in the universe, according to the narrator in Chapter 2.
(a) 'sGravesande.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Euler.

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

3. Madame du Chatelet supported the Leibnizian theory of ________ because it gave a better account of free will.
(a) Religion.
(b) Mechanics.
(c) Physics.
(d) Christianity.

4. 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) Cycloid.
(b) Brachistachrone.
(c) Isoperimeters.
(d) Tractrix.

5. The concept of subtle fluids made its appearance around ________ when demonstration experiments in physics were rapidly gaining in popularity, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) 1740.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1853.
(d) 1770.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who called natural history the "great root and mother" of all the sciences and made it the indispensable prelude to his experimental philosophy in Chapter 5?

2. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?

3. According to Chapter 1, who made Newton into a supreme rationalist whose laws of motion were a priori deductions of pure thought?

4. Beginning in 1760, all of the following individuals were considered the three best experimentalists of the century who were all drawn to the ovist version of the preformation theory except for which one?

5. In the preface to his "Histoire" of the Paris Academy of Science, who argued in 1699 that the new "geometric spirit" could also improve works on politics, morals, literary criticism, and even public speaking?

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