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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 path of a body that is dragged over a resisting horizontal surface by a cord of which one end moves along a straight line found?
2. All of the following were forms of fire, according to Boerhaave and Musschenbroek, except for which one?
3. ________, "curator of experiments" at the Royal Society, began research on the luminosity of phosphorus in 1705, under instruction from members of the society.
4. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."
5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how the laws of nature were to be discovered by experimentation and observation.
2. What prompted the versions of the mechanical philosophy in the seventeenth century? Give an example.
3. How did the eighteenth century define analysis? Explain.
4. Discuss Christian Wolff's book "Generally useful researches for attaining to a more exact knowledge of nature and the arts."
5. Briefly discuss the origin of subtle fluid as discuss in Chapter 3 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
6. Briefly explain the major philosopher of method in France in the eighteenth century.
7. Discuss the study of physics in the beginning of the Enlightenment.
8. Discuss the origin of the study of electricity.
9. What did the French call the eighteenth century? Explain.
10. Who was William Herschel and what planet did he discover?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze and discuss the Chemical Revolution as detailed in "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 2
Thoroughly explain the Leyden Jar as detailed in Chapter 3 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the impact the Encyclopedie had on the moral sciences and on the Enlightenment as a whole.
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