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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 1, ________, in 1747, attributed the cause of a "great revolution in physics" to Newton's "Principia."
(a) Maupertuis.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Alexis-Claude Clairaut.
(d) Malebranche.

2. Who stated in the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?
(a) Lagrange.
(b) Hermann.
(c) Euler.
(d) Basel.

3. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
(a) Robert Symmer.
(b) William Gilbert.
(c) John Cuthbertson.
(d) Abbe Nollet.

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?
(a) Haller.
(b) Spallanzani.
(c) Bonnet.
(d) Needham.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1757, thirty years after Hales described his experiments with ________, Joseph Black discovered the phenomenon of ________.

2. Van Helmont had proposed an ________ in the stomach that he believed to be the innermost essence of life and that acted by fermentation.

3. What was the name of the leader of the natural history revival in England and the best naturalist of his age, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?

5. In Chapter 5, ________ and ________ found freshwater worms regenerated in the same fashion, and since worms were definitely animals, previous doubts about the animality of the polyp lost their force.

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