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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. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
2. 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.
3. In 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.
4. Who made the first extensive series of investigations of electricity in his book "De Magnete," according to Chapter 3?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how mathematics and mechanics advanced through the study of curves.
2. What were the two necessary ingredients for the improvement of astronomical tables? Explain.
3. What was the meaning of experimental physics at the end of the Enlightenment? Why is important that the meaning of experimental physics had changed?
4. Discuss how nature and reason tied into the Enlightenment.
5. Discuss the study of physics in the beginning of the Enlightenment.
6. Who was William Herschel and what planet did he discover?
7. Discuss the ideology of the Enlightenment on natural philosophers. Who was France's main natural philosopher? Explain.
8. Discuss Benjamin Franklin's single static electrical atmosphere.
9. Discuss the product of the Philosophical Letters.
10. Discuss the two concepts that were studied in rational mechanics during the Enlightenment.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Present arguments for and against Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory and its impact on the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss natural history's impact on the field of physiology as detailed in Chapter 5 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast positional astronomy to physical astronomy.
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