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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. 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) Catenary.
(b) Brachistachrone.
(c) Involute.
(d) Tractrix.

2. In 1819, who gave a clue to the source of this pessimism when he wrote that "the power of our analysis is practically exhausted"?
(a) Sylvestre-Francois Lacroix.
(b) Joseph-Louis Lagrange.
(c) Isaac Barrow.
(d) Diderot.

3. The mathematical study of probability had begun in 1654 in a correspondence between ________ and ________.
(a) Locke / Black.
(b) Newton / Darwin.
(c) Quesnay / Voltaire.
(d) Pascal / Fermat.

4. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?
(a) Newton.
(b) Cullen.
(c) Lavoisier.
(d) Black.

5. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
(a) Electricity / heat.
(b) Water / air.
(c) Heat / air.
(d) Electricity / water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stated in 1665 that "Analysis...seems to belong no more to Mathematics than to Physics, Ethics or any other Science"?

2. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?

3. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?

4. What was the name of the curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?

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

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