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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
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. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
4. What category of science, at the beginning of the Enlightenment, was "the science that teaches us the reasons and causes of all the effects that Nature produces," including both living and nonliving phenomena?
5. Chapter 2 states that ________ had been created to deal with the problem of motion and that the new mathematical techniques discovered in the eighteenth century were all responses to the challenges of mechanics.
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the eighteenth century define analysis? Explain.
2. Discuss the periodic fluctuation Bradley found in 1748.
3. What were the two necessary ingredients for the improvement of astronomical tables? Explain.
4. What did Leibniz argue in regards to the mechanical philosophy of the Enlightenment?
5. Discuss Christian Wolff's book "Generally useful researches for attaining to a more exact knowledge of nature and the arts."
6. Discuss the ideology of the Enlightenment on natural philosophers. Who was France's main natural philosopher? Explain.
7. Explain how the laws of nature were to be discovered by experimentation and observation.
8. Discuss the origin of the study of electricity.
9. Discuss the product of the Philosophical Letters.
10. What was the meaning of experimental physics at the end of the Enlightenment? Why is important that the meaning of experimental physics had changed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss natural history's impact on the field of physiology as detailed in Chapter 5 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 2
Explain how heat and temperature are related and how the discovery of both impacted the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the role literature played in the science field, as detailed in Chapter 1 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
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