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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. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
(a) Voltaire / d'Alembert.
(b) Giovanni Poleni / 'sGravesande.
(c) 'sGravesande / Descartes.
(d) Newton / Aristotle.

2. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.
(a) Galileo.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Poleni.
(d) Voltaire.

3. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?
(a) Condillac.
(b) Isaac Barrow.
(c) Euclid.
(d) Aristotle.

4. Chapter 5 states that ________ means an inquiry or investigation into nature.
(a) Neurology.
(b) Naturology.
(c) Natural history.
(d) Physiology.

5. 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) Bernard Fontenelle.
(c) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.
(d) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

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.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.

4. Joseph Priestly and Henry Cavendish continued to use the term ________ for the action of fire in combustion, in Chapter 4.

5. In 1688, who had shown that the insect larva, pupa, and imago can exist simultaneously, all nested one within the other?

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