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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Natural History and Physiology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who saw his physiology as an animata anatome, an experimental science that investigated and explained the special properties and functions of living matter without going beyond the information obtained from the senses?
(a) Haller.
(b) Glisson.
(c) Diderot.
(d) D'Alembert.

2. Chapter 2 reveals that Leibniz wrote the "second difference" in calculus as ________.
(a) D2X.
(b) B3C.
(c) R6Z.
(d) A3E.

3. Who had written a preface to the second edition of the "Principia," supposedly with Newton's blessing, that described gravity as a force acting at a distance without any intervening medium?
(a) James Butler.
(b) Roger Cortes.
(c) Robert Boyle.
(d) Henry Oldenburg.

4. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.
(a) Impression.
(b) Hermeneutics.
(c) Momentum.
(d) Formalism.

5. In Chapter 5, the most scandalous physiology of all was "Man the Machine" of ________.
(a) Shaftesbury.
(b) Vincennes.
(c) Boerhaave.
(d) La Mettrie.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 3, Abbe Nollet, who became the most prominent ________ during the Enlightenment, explained the two electricities as opposing currents of the electrical fluid emerging in jets from the electrified body.

2. The conversion of 'sGravesande confused the ideological debate because he was one of the leading supporters of ________ philosophy on the Continent.

3. In Chapter 3, ________ and ________ were both led to the problem of specific heat by the discovery that a great deal of heat was required to melt ice, even though its temperature remained at the melting point.

4. Some of the "cabinet de physique" became very large, the most famous being the collection of the ________ in Haarlem.

5. As a mathematician and rigorous metaphysician, ________ believed that the universe in all past, present, and future states followed a "preestablished harmony" laid down by God at the time of creation.

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