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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 philosopher who had a passion for humanity, a desire to "do good," and a penchant for reform, according to Chapter 1?
2. In Chapter 3, who proposed a single static electrical "atmosphere" that attracted and repelled by pressure rather than by the impact of an electrical wind?
3. In Chapter 3, who noticed that when he pulled off his silk socks in the evening, "they frequently made a crackling or snapping noise" and emitted "sparks of fire"?
4. 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"?
5. The concept of subtle fluids made its appearance around ________ when demonstration experiments in physics were rapidly gaining in popularity, according to the narrator in Chapter 3.
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the eighteenth century define analysis? Explain.
2. Discuss Benjamin Franklin's single static electrical atmosphere.
3. Discuss Charles Francois de Cisternai Dufay and his impact in electrical science.
4. Who coined the term "Scientific Revolution" and who was this person? What was the Scientific Revolution?
5. Discuss Christian Wolff's book "Generally useful researches for attaining to a more exact knowledge of nature and the arts."
6. Why was income important to scientists during the Enlightenment period?
7. Discuss the product of the Philosophical Letters.
8. Discuss the ideology of the Enlightenment on natural philosophers. Who was France's main natural philosopher? Explain.
9. Discuss the electrical experiments of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen Gray and Abbe Jean Antoine Nollet.
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
Explain how heat and temperature are related and how the discovery of both impacted the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 2
Explain how subtle fluids effect electricity as discussed in Chapter 3 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 3
Describe in great detail Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws. Do you support Montesquieu's proposition? Why or why not?
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