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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The Moral Sciences.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) B3C.
(b) D2X.
(c) A3E.
(d) R6Z.
2. What was the name of the priest of the Congregation of the Oratory, who was also a philosopher, mathematician, and member of the French Academy of Sciences?
(a) Nicolas Malebranche.
(b) Descartes.
(c) Newton.
(d) Chatelet.
3. 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) Spallanzani.
(b) Haller.
(c) Needham.
(d) Bonnet.
4. 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) Voltaire.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Poleni.
5. Chapter 6 explains that ________ created the first stirrings of Romanticism.
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Newton.
(c) Bayle.
(d) Darwin.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?
2. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu, and Carl Linnaeus were considered ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.
3. In attempting to understand the role of air in combustion and calcination, Lavoisier extended ________'s theory of the vaporous state into chemistry.
4. In 1688, Fontenelle wrote a treatise on the nature of the eclogue or ________.
5. Who saw his physiology as an animata anatome, an experimental science that investigated and explained the special properties and functions of living matter without going beyond the information obtained from the senses?
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