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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 leader of the natural history revival in England and the best naturalist of his age, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
2. Before 1740, the standard authorities in physiology were all of the following individuals except for whom?
3. In 1660, Robert Boyle published an account of experiments that he had performed with his ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.
4. In Chapter 4, the narrator reveals that Anne Robert Jacques Turgot was a famous French ________.
5. Chapter 5 reveals that in ________, natural theology declined after 1750 as a result of the anti-religious sentiment of the Enlightenment.
Short Essay Questions
1. Briefly discuss the two great national academies that were the models on which the new academies of the eighteenth century were founded.
2. Briefly explain Joseph Black as described in Chapter 4.
3. Who were the physiocrats? Explain.
4. Discuss the rise of experimental physiology in the 1740s.
5. Discuss Turgot's version of the science of man.
6. Discuss natural history's rebirth in the late seventeenth century.
7. What was Turgot's theory of expansibility?
8. Explain why the Chemical Revolution was more the creation of a new science than a change in an existing one.
9. Briefly discuss Jean Senebier's interpretation of Ingen-Housz's explanation of how plants produced oxygen.
10. What was the medical purpose of Black's research in gas chemistry? Explain.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how subtle fluids effect electricity as discussed in Chapter 3 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 2
Explain how heat and temperature are related and how the discovery of both impacted the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the early history of electricity as detailed in Chapter 3 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
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