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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. Who had written a preface to the second edition of the "Principia," supposedly with Newton's blessing, that described gravity as a force acting at a distance without any intervening medium?
(a) Roger Cortes.
(b) James Butler.
(c) Henry Oldenburg.
(d) Robert Boyle.

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 5, who coined the word "spermatozoon" in 1827?
(a) Swammerdam.
(b) Von Baer.
(c) Hartsoeker.
(d) Linnaeus.

3. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
(a) Leibniz.
(b) D'Alembert.
(c) Cartesians.
(d) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle.

4. According to Chapter 1, the noble Houyhnhnm in Jonathan Swift's ________ "thought Nature and Reason were sufficient guides for a reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what we ought to do, and what to avoid."
(a) Twelve Articles.
(b) Gulliver's Travels.
(c) The Day of Judgement.
(d) A Modest Proposal.

5. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?
(a) Brachistachrone.
(b) Involute.
(c) Catenary.
(d) Tractrix.

Short Answer Questions

1. The discipline of physics had originally been created by ________, and it had nothing to do with experiment or quantitative measure nor was it limited to the inorganic world.

2. D'Alembert, in 1754, through the machinations of his powerful patroness, the ________, became part of the literary French Academy.

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 1, what was the key to a correct method whose model was mathematics?

4. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.

5. The names "biology" and "sociology" were names and fields that were created in what century, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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