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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. 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 ________.
(a) Agenesis.
(b) Symbiosis.
(c) Zygosis.
(d) Epigenesis.

2. Who was the extraordinary philosopher whose life and career exemplified many aspects of the Enlightenment, although he was not especially prominent as a natural philosopher nor was he the main protagonist in the vis viva controversy?
(a) Gabrielle de Breteuil.
(b) Chatelet.
(c) Bernoulli.
(d) Voltaire.

3. Symmer's socks suggested the presence of ________ electrical fluids, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

4. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
(a) Tractrix.
(b) Isoperimeters.
(c) Catenary.
(d) Involute.

5. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
(a) Voltaire / d'Alembert.
(b) Newton / Aristotle.
(c) 'sGravesande / Descartes.
(d) Giovanni Poleni / 'sGravesande.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?

2. ________, "curator of experiments" at the Royal Society, began research on the luminosity of phosphorus in 1705, under instruction from members of the society.

3. In 1769, ________, a student of Joseph Black's at Glasgow, measured the repulsion between charges with an apparatus that balanced the electrical repulsion against gravitational attraction.

4. When experimentalists studied electricity, the ________ and the ________ were candidates for study because they both appeared to protect themselves electrically.

5. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.

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