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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. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
2. Who argued in the "Preliminary discourse" to the "Encyclopedie" that mathematics was basic to all of physics, according to the narrator in Chapter 3?
3. ________ in Italy and ________ in Holland did experiments in which they measured the impact of a falling ball by dropping in onto clay.
4. In 1769, ________, a student of Joseph Black's at Glasgow, measured the repulsion between charges with an apparatus that balanced the electrical repulsion against gravitational attraction.
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. What did Leibniz argue in regards to the mechanical philosophy of the Enlightenment?
2. Discuss the two concepts that were studied in rational mechanics during the Enlightenment.
3. Discuss the periodic fluctuation Bradley found in 1748.
4. Briefly explain the major philosopher of method in France in the eighteenth century.
5. Briefly discuss the origin of subtle fluid as discuss in Chapter 3 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
6. What did the French call the eighteenth century? Explain.
7. Discuss Benjamin Franklin's single static electrical atmosphere.
8. Explain how the laws of nature were to be discovered by experimentation and observation.
9. How did the eighteenth century define analysis? Explain.
10. Discuss Christian Wolff's book "Generally useful researches for attaining to a more exact knowledge of nature and the arts."
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the motion along a curve theory and its relevance to the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 2
Thoroughly explain why Newton was so important to the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the difference between the ideology of the Enlightenment and Aristotelian theories of science.
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