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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. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
(a) Jean d'Alembert.
(b) Locke.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Boerhaave.
2. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, who was one of the originators of the mechanical philosophy who believed there were no forces or powers in matter?
(a) Carnot.
(b) Bernoulli.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Leibniz.
3. The narrator explains in Chapter 4 that the most popular textbooks in France during the first half of the eighteenth century were those of ________ and ________.
(a) Roi / Lavoisier.
(b) Cullen / Black.
(c) Stahl / Marggraf / Rouelle.
(d) Boerhaave / Lemery.
4. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?
(a) Mixed mathematics.
(b) Geology.
(c) Meteorology.
(d) Botany.
5. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
(a) Electricity.
(b) Light.
(c) Heat.
(d) Wood.
Short Answer 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"?
2. In Chapter 4, who found that many liquids cooled on evaporation: the more volatile the liquid, the greater the amount of cooling?
3. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
4. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
5. Electricians in the following countries concluded from their experiments that electrified seeds germinated faster, that electrified plants sent out shoots earlier, and that electrified animals were slightly lighter than non-electrified ones, except for which country?
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