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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. Throughout the Enlightenment, reason was usually extolled in the same breath with ________, the other key word of the Enlightenment.
2. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.
3. Who was France's greatest hero of the Enlightenment partly because he was from England, the source of free thought and liberty and partly because he had solved the riddle of the planets, showing that their motions obeyed the same laws as motions on earth?
4. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.
5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who coined the term "Scientific Revolution" and who was this person? What was the Scientific Revolution?
2. Discuss how nature and reason tied into the Enlightenment.
3. Why was income important to scientists during the Enlightenment period?
4. Who was William Herschel and what planet did he discover?
5. Discuss Fontenelle's tie to science and literature as discussed in Chapter 1.
6. Explain how the laws of nature were to be discovered by experimentation and observation.
7. Who redefined physics in the 1720s? Explain.
8. Briefly discuss the origin of subtle fluid as discuss in Chapter 3 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
9. What were the proponents of blunt rods which where used in the study of electricity? Who led the proponents of blunt rods? Explain.
10. Discuss Charles Francois de Cisternai Dufay and his impact in electrical science.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how heat and temperature are related and how the discovery of both impacted the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast positional astronomy to physical astronomy.
Essay Topic 3
Identify, analyze, and discuss the perspective in which "Science and the Enlightenment" was written.
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