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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. Who stated in the introduction to their book that, "There are no figures in this book. The methods that I demonstrate here require neither constructions, nor geometrical or mechanical reasoning, but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform development"?
3. 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.
4. By what name did natural philosophers want to be known as, according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
5. What area of science included astronomy, optics, statics, hydraulics, gnomonics, geography, horology, navigation, surveying, and fortification?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the meaning of experimental physics at the end of the Enlightenment? Why is important that the meaning of experimental physics had changed?
2. Discuss the electrical experiments of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Gray and Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet.
3. Who was William Herschel and what planet did he discover?
4. Discuss how nature and reason tied into the Enlightenment.
5. What did the French call the eighteenth century? Explain.
6. Discuss Christian Wolff's book "Generally useful researches for attaining to a more exact knowledge of nature and the arts."
7. What advantage did natural philosophy have over other literary pursuits? Explain.
8. Who coined the term "Scientific Revolution" and who was this person? What was the Scientific Revolution?
9. Explain why Newton's laws were not adequate to deal with all of the mechanical phenomena studied during the Enlightenment.
10. Discuss the study of physics in the beginning of the Enlightenment.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the role literature played in the science field, as detailed in Chapter 1 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 2
Identify, analyze, and discuss the two sensational new discoveries in generation that coincided with the change in physiological theories as detailed in Chapter 5 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the impact the Encyclopedie had on the moral sciences and on the Enlightenment as a whole.
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