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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 Chapter 3, whose book described demonstration experiments and gave detailed instructions for making and using the apparatus, but unlike the Dutch physicists, he attempted to create a single rational systematic philosophy, after the model of Leibniz?
(a) Wolff.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Desaguliers.
(d) Chatelet.

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

3. The narrator explains in Chapter 3 that ________ and ________ were the best examples of subtle fluids.
(a) Heat / air.
(b) Electricity / water.
(c) Electricity / heat.
(d) Water / air.

4. Contemporary chemistry recognized only one element in the gaseous state, and that was the element _______.
(a) Water.
(b) Earth.
(c) Fire.
(d) Air.

5. In Chapter 2, what was the name of the shape of a chain suspended between two fixed points?
(a) Catenary.
(b) Tractrix.
(c) Isoperimeters.
(d) Involute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 1 states that the "geometric spirit" noted by ________ ensured that the same progress would occur in our knowledge about nature.

2. In the early years of the Enlightenment, the strongest support on the Continent for Newton's philosophy came from ________.

3. Who was the extraordinary philosopher whose life and career exemplified many aspects of the Enlightenment, although he was not especially prominent as a natural philosopher nor was he the main protagonist in the vis viva controversy?

4. According to Chapter 2, for Newton, ________ consisted in "making experiments and observations and in drawing general Conclusion from them by Induction."

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

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