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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. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
2. The "Philosophical Letters" was a product of Voltaire's visit to ________ according to Chapter 2.
3. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
4. Who was the extraordinary philosopher whose life and career exemplified many aspects of the Enlightenment, although he was not especially prominent as a natural philosopher nor was he the main protagonist in the vis viva controversy?
5. Who became the ablest and most productive mathematician of the eighteenth century, according to the narrator in Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the French call the eighteenth century? Explain.
2. Discuss the study of physics in the beginning of the Enlightenment.
3. Who redefined physics in the 1720s? Explain.
4. What were the proponents of blunt rods which where used in the study of electricity? Who led the proponents of blunt rods? Explain.
5. What prompted the versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century? Give an example.
6. What were the two necessary ingredients for the improvement of astronomical tables? Explain.
7. Discuss the two concepts that were studied in rational mechanics during the Enlightenment.
8. Explain how the laws of nature were to be discovered by experimentation and observation.
9. Discuss how nature and reason tied into the Enlightenment.
10. Discuss Benjamin Franklin's single static electrical atmosphere.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the mechanical and vital explanations of natural phenomena, especially motion.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the role literature played in the science field, as detailed in Chapter 1 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 3
Thoroughly explain why Newton was so important to the Enlightenment.
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