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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 curve traced by the end of a string as it is unwrapped from another curve found in Chapter 2?
2. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.
3. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
4. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
5. Who came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the origin of the study of electricity.
2. Explain why Newton's laws were not adequate to deal with all of the mechanical phenomena studied during the Enlightenment.
3. Why was income important to scientists during the Enlightenment period?
4. Who coined the term "Scientific Revolution" and who was this person? What was the Scientific Revolution?
5. What advantage did natural philosophy have over other literary pursuits? Explain.
6. Discuss the product of the Philosophical Letters.
7. Discuss the periodic fluctuation Bradley found in 1748.
8. Discuss Fontenelle's tie to science and literature as discussed in Chapter 1.
9. What did Leibniz argue in regards to the mechanical philosophy of the Enlightenment?
10. Briefly explain the major philosopher of method in France in the eighteenth century.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast "reason" vs. "nature" as discussed in Chapter 1 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 2
Identify, analyze, and discuss the three tests of Universal Gravitation.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the Chemical Revolution as detailed in "Science and the Enlightenment."
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