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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. Who was the most important German chemist, whose papers in the "Memoires" of the Berlin Academy, during the 1740s and 1750s, earned the admiration of the French chemists?
2. Joseph Black studied chemistry with ________ at Glasgow, serving for three years as his assistant, according to Chapter 4.
3. The first mortality tables from which life insurance premiums could be calculated were constructed just at the end of the ________ century.
4. The reintroduction of atomism into chemistry was accomplished by a meteorologist, ________, who became a chemist only when he saw the implications for chemistry of his ideas about the atmosphere.
5. In 1660, Robert Boyle published an account of experiments that he had performed with his ________, according to the narrator in Chapter 4.
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss natural history's rebirth in the late seventeenth century.
2. What was the "Encyclopedie"?
3. Explain how probability as human judgment was important in law and in commercial transactions.
4. Discuss the rise of experimental physiology in the 1740s.
5. What was Turgot's theory of expansibility?
6. Discuss Turgot's version of the science of man.
7. What were a couple ways to promote the science of man according to Chapter 6?
8. Discuss Abraham Trembley's discovery of generation.
9. Discuss the three social classes in France as described in Chapter 6.
10. Briefly discuss Georg Stahl and his impact on living matter.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how subtle fluids effect electricity as discussed in Chapter 3 of "Science and the Enlightenment."
Essay Topic 2
Identify, analyze, and discuss the three tests of Universal Gravitation.
Essay Topic 3
Explain the difference between the ideology of the Enlightenment and Aristotelian theories of science.
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