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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 came out in support of vis viva in 1722 and concluded that "what was before only a dispute of words now becomes a dispute about real things"?
(a) Galileo Galilei.
(b) 'sGravesande.
(c) Musschenbroek.
(d) Voltaire.
2. In 1757, thirty years after Hales described his experiments with ________, Joseph Black discovered the phenomenon of ________.
(a) Volatile liquid / fixed heat.
(b) Vaporization / Dissertation.
(c) Fixed air / latent heat.
(d) Latent heat / Fixed heat.
3. The narrator reveals that vis viva was a measure of ________ to conserve his creation while "action" was a measure of his efficiency.
(a) Man's passion.
(b) God's desire.
(c) God's demeanor.
(d) Man's desire.
4. What was the name of the philosopher who could enthusiastically claim that "the works of Nature everywhere sufficiently evidence a Diety"?
(a) D' Alembert.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Kant.
(d) John Locke.
5. In Chapter 4, Abbe Condillac claimed that ________ was the best language because it had the best symbols.
(a) Chinese.
(b) Sign language.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Japanese.
Short Answer Questions
1. Descartes's "quantity of motion" is equivalent to our modern principle of the conservation of ________.
2. Who, as both a chemist and a physician, was the first to criticize mechanistic explanations while his books on chemistry and physiology influenced Europe?
3. The influx of German texts coincided with the revival of French chemistry under ________, who began his famous chemical lectures at the Jardin de Roi in 1742.
4. The narrator explained in Chapter 4 that there was very little in Lavoisier's activities prior to 1772 that revealed any interest in ________.
5. Chapter 2 states that ________ had been created to deal with the problem of motion and that the new mathematical techniques discovered in the eighteenth century were all responses to the challenges of mechanics.
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