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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 5, the most scandalous physiology of all was "Man the Machine" of ________.
2. Georg Stahl renamed the oily earth ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.
3. Who wrote in Chapter 6, "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying, 'This is mine,' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society"?
4. Harvey followed the Aristotelian notion that the embryo began as a homogeneous mass and that the organs formed one after another from this homogeneous substance in a process called ________.
5. The beginning of Chapter 6 states that the following were traditional judicial bodies that claimed the right to approve taxes except for which one?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the medical purpose of Black's research in gas chemistry? Explain.
2. Briefly explain Joseph Priestley and his contribution to gas chemistry.
3. What is natural history? What does natural mean in the Aristotelian sense?
4. Briefly discuss Jean Senebier's interpretation of Ingen-Housz's explanation of how plants produced oxygen.
5. What were the four fragments of knowledge that probably contributed to Lavoisier's inspiration to research combustion?
6. Describe the three primary kinds of governments Montesquieu distinguished between in Chapter 6.
7. Explain the common property air and fire both shared.
8. What were a couple ways to promote the science of man according to Chapter 6?
9. What was Turgot's theory of expansibility?
10. What was the "Encyclopedie"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast positional astronomy to physical astronomy.
Essay Topic 2
Explain the motion along a curve theory and its relevance to the Enlightenment.
Essay Topic 3
Compare and contrast "reason" vs. "nature" as discussed in Chapter 1 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
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