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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. Saussure found that plants grow better in an atmosphere rich in fixed air, up to a concentration of approximately ________ percent.
2. According to the narrator in Chapter 6, what where the two great national academies that were the models on which the new academies of the eighteenth century were founded?
3. Who argued in Chapter 6 that although men did not enjoy equal abilities, they did have the same natural rights, and it was therefore incumbent on the government to allow individuals to pursue their own best interests to the extent that they could without infringing on the natural rights of others?
4. Chapter 6 explains that ________ created the first stirrings of Romanticism.
5. In Chapter 5, the most scandalous physiology of all was "Man the Machine" of ________.
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the three primary kinds of governments Montesquieu distinguished between in Chapter 6.
2. What two other academic chores brought the problem of combustion to Lavoisier's attention?
3. Discuss Abraham Trembley's discovery of generation.
4. What is natural history? What does natural mean in the Aristotelian sense?
5. Explain why the Chemical Revolution was more the creation of a new science than a change in an existing one.
6. What were the three main ingredients of the Chemical Revolution?
7. What were a couple ways to promote the science of man according to Chapter 6?
8. What were the four fragments of knowledge that probably contributed to Lavoisier's inspiration to research combustion?
9. Who were the physiocrats? Explain.
10. What was Turgot's theory of expansibility?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Present arguments for and against Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory and its impact on 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 role literature played in the science field, as detailed in Chapter 1 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
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