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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Experimental Physics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the preface to his "Histoire" of the Paris Academy of Science, who argued in 1699 that the new "geometric spirit" could also improve works on politics, morals, literary criticism, and even public speaking?
(a) Newton.
(b) Fontenelle.
(c) Leibniz.
(d) Varignon.

2. What was the name of the revolution that was a cultural event associated with Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Rene Descartes, and Isaac Newton?
(a) Scientific Revolution.
(b) Enlightenment Revolution.
(c) American Revolution.
(d) French Revolution.

3. Who claimed a community of atheists could live a completely moral existence, according to Chapter 1 of the book "Science and the Enlightenment"?
(a) Varignon.
(b) Pierre Bayle.
(c) L'Hopital.
(d) Kant.

4. Who coined the expression "Scientific Revolution," according to the narrator in Chapter 1?
(a) Malebranche.
(b) Jean Lerond d'Alembert.
(c) Descartes.
(d) Newton.

5. In 1729, ________, a dedicated amateur experimenter and occasional contributor to the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society, discovered that electricity could be communicated over rather long distances by contact.
(a) Newton.
(b) Francis Hauksbee.
(c) 'sGravesande.
(d) Stephen Gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the hands of ________, history led not to an understanding of God's will but rather to an understanding of human nature.

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

3. Chapter 1 states that in 1700, ________ first talked about an "almost complete revolution in geometry" that had begun with the analytic geometry of Descartes.

4. What was the name of the path by which an object slides from one point to another that is not on the same vertical line in the shortest possible time?

5. In Chapter 3, what was the name of the experimental tradition began in Western Europe during the Renaissance?

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