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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. ________, "curator of experiments" at the Royal Society, began research on the luminosity of phosphorus in 1705, under instruction from members of the society.
(a) John Cuthbertson.
(b) Abbe Nollet.
(c) William Gilbert.
(d) Francis Hauksbee.

2. In Chapter 3, who noticed that when he pulled off his silk socks in the evening, "they frequently made a crackling or snapping noise" and emitted "sparks of fire"?
(a) William Gilbert.
(b) Robert Symmer.
(c) John Cuthbertson.
(d) Martinus van Marum.

3. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.
(a) Turgot.
(b) Macquer.
(c) Bayen.
(d) Black.

4. The narrator reveals that mathematicians pursued ________, in which the physical object was reduced to a few idealized properties that were capable of quantification.
(a) Synthesis.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Rational mechanics.
(d) Psychology.

5. The crucial realization of the Chemical Revolution was that ________ was not a single element but a physical state that many chemical substances could assume, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Fire.
(b) Air.
(c) Earth.
(d) Wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harvey followed the Aristotelian notion that the embryo began as a homogeneous mass and that the organs formed one after another from this homogeneous substance in a process called ________.

2. ________'s emphasis on the repulsive or expansive property of air, led naturally to an emphasis on the expansive properties of the even more subtle fluids of heat and electricity.

3. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 4, ________ and ________ were closely associated because they were still based to a large extent on the concept of the Aristotelian elements: earth, water, air, and fire.

5. What term did Toland invent for the belief that God and nature were one and the same, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

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