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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. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Antoine de Jussieu, and Carl Linnaeus were considered ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 5.
2. The first mortality tables from which life insurance premiums could be calculated were constructed just at the end of the ________ century.
3. Who was the first person to identify a new air different from common atmospheric air,, in Chapter 4?
4. The mathematical study of probability had begun in 1654 in a correspondence between ________ and ________.
5. The science of man took several very different directions during the Enlightenment, the most controversial being that of ________.
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the medical purpose of Black's research in gas chemistry? Explain.
2. What did Descartes conclude about mechanical philosophy and the study of life?
3. Explain the common property air and fire both shared.
4. Briefly discuss the two great national academies that were the models on which the new academies of the eighteenth century were founded.
5. Discuss the rise of experimental physiology in the 1740s.
6. Briefly explain Joseph Priestley and his contribution to gas chemistry.
7. What were a couple ways to promote the science of man according to Chapter 6?
8. What was the "Encyclopedie"?
9. Discuss natural history's rebirth in the late seventeenth century.
10. Discuss Turgot's version of the science of man.
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
Compare and contrast "reason" vs. "nature" as discussed in Chapter 1 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 3
Present arguments for and against Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory and its impact on the Enlightenment.
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