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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 the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.
2. Who believed that the universe would run down if it were not for God's intervention to renew his creation?
3. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.
4. From ________'s law of falling bodies, it was known that the heights would be proportional to the squares of the velocities at impact.
5. The ________, who had been leaders in experimental physics during the seventeenth century, continued to hold a prominent place until their order was suppressed in 1773.
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss the study of physics in the beginning of the Enlightenment.
2. Explain how the laws of nature were to be discovered by experimentation and observation.
3. What did Leibniz argue in regards to the mechanical philosophy of the Enlightenment?
4. Discuss Christian Wolff's book "Generally useful researches for attaining to a more exact knowledge of nature and the arts."
5. Discuss the periodic fluctuation Bradley found in 1748.
6. What were the proponents of blunt rods which where used in the study of electricity? Who led the proponents of blunt rods? Explain.
7. What did the French call the eighteenth century? Explain.
8. Why was income important to scientists during the Enlightenment period?
9. Who redefined physics in the 1720s? Explain.
10. Who coined the term "Scientific Revolution" and who was this person? What was the Scientific Revolution?
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 motion along a curve theory and its relevance to the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast positional astronomy to physical astronomy.
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