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Version 1 of HIST 1301 End of term
Version 1 of HIST 1301 End of term
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This machine was patented in 1769 by Richard Arkwright. What is it?
The spinning jenny
The flying shuttle
The water frame
The power loom
2
This image is from
Hooke'sMicrographia
Diderot'sEncylcopedie
Linnaeus'sSystem of Nature
Lamark'sZoological Philosophy
3
The Quadrivium (pictured here) was comprised of:
Geometry, Arithmetic, Astronomy, Music
Geometry, Arithmetic, Calculus, Algebra
Logic, Rhetoric, Law, Theology
Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic, Composition
4
Which of the following cannot be transmuted into the others?
Air
Earth
Fire
Water
5
d'Alembert:
The goal of science should be to reduce things to ______ & thereby understand them.
basic features
innate structures
fundamental natures
mechanical properties
6
Who wrote
The Principia
?
Newton
Lamarck
Bacon
Voltaire
7
According to Aristotle which classification of animal belonged highest on the hierarchy?
testacea
crustacea
oviparous quadrupeds
viviparous quadrupeds
8
Who published The Starry Messenger in 1610?
Kepler
Galileo
Brahe
Copernicus
9
Which if these would NOT be considered one of Aristotle's "bloodless" animals?
crab
sea anemone
shark
dragonfly
10
Did Plato believe that you could trust your senses?
Yes
No
Only some of them
11
By _ all extant Greek works on medicine, natural phil., logic & math were translated to Arabic
1200CE
336CE
1000CE
1426CE
12
What technology does Jared Diamond argue is most important for societies to grow?
Organizational
Industrial
Weaponry
Agricultural
13
This explorer and natural philosopher believed that you had to "be there".
Goethe
Darwin
Owen
von Humboldt
14
"If I have seen far it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants."
Copernicus
Hooke
Newton
Darwin
15
These illustrations are from....
Goethe's Metamorphosis of Plants
Laplace's System of the World
Owen's "The Nature of Limbs"
16
Cultural movement that responded against the percieved Enlightenment mechanization of world:
Renaissance
Nostalgia
Romanticism
Newtonism
17
What big science project located its main laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico?
The Trinity Project
The Manhattan Project
Linus Pauling's DNA laboratory
The Human Genome Project
18
Thomas Savery referred to his method/steam pump by what term?
water by fire
steam engine
water vacuum
miner's helper
19
Who designed the mitre gates that were used in pound locks?
Volta
Franklin
da Vinci
van Muscenbroek
20
Copernicus's On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres (1543):
Was a bestseller with many reprints
Supported the biblical geocentric universe
Was written in the vernacular
Proposed a heliocentric universe
21
__________ proposed that the world was separated into fire, air, earth, water, love & strife
Empedocles
Leucippus
Thales
Anaximander
22
The Royal Society of London's Coat of Arms reads “Nullius in verba” which means:
Reason will prevail
Take nobody's word for it
Trust only your mind
Nothing but truth
23
The Novum Organum challenged ancient authority, systems and methods. Organum means:
Method
Book
Inquisition
Tool
24
This inventor improved the Savery engine using atmospheric pressure to drive a piston downward
George Stephenson
Thomas Newcomen
James Watt
Richard Trevithick
25
The Islamic Empire imported paper making technology from this Empire
Greek
Roman
Chinese
Ottoman
26
Alvin M. Weinberg: "When history looks at the 20th century, she will see _ and _ as its theme;"
Atoms and Genes
War and Medicine
Advancements and Discoveries
Science and Technology
27
Who developed the Leyden Jar as a method to store electricity?
van Mucenbroek
Franklin
Galvani
Volta
28
Why did European Alchemists refer to Aristotle's
Meteorology
?
It promised gold and glory
It had recipes to transmute metals into greater metals
Aristotle proposed how metal formed and they wanted to copy
They believed Aristotle was the greatest alchemist
29
Who developed the theory of the archetype (in biology/science)?
Paley
Darwin
Owen
Goethe
30
According to Aristotle plants, animals, and humans all possessed ____
Rational Soul
Nutritive Soul
Sensitive Soul
31
Who explained how electricity works (with + and - charges) by comparing it to an economy?
Volta
Newton
Galvani
Franklin
32
Which was founded first? (In 1660)
Academie des Sciences
Royal Society of London
British Association for the Advancement of Science
Royal Institution
33
Bacon believed that lack of progress was due to ....
lack of application
lack of imagination
lack of knowledge
lack of skill
34
What is a cathode tube?
Tube to contain radioactive elements so as to be safe
Used be Einstein to demonstrate his theory of relativity.
None of these
A tube with a partial vacuum with electrodes at each end.
35
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity fire will always ____
Move toward the sun
Move toward the centre of the universe
Move away from the centre of the universe
36
The Principia by Isaac Newton was revolutionary because:
It proposed common laws for terrestrial and celestial region
It was heretical
It refuted all previous systems of nature
It proved Galileo wrong
37
Which of the following was NOT an important prerequisite for scientific thinking?
Prosperity
Literacy
Democracy
Contact with other cultures
38
This frontispiece to Spratt's History of the Royal Society depicts Brouckner, Charles II and:
Robert Boyle
Isaac Newton
Robert Hooke
Francis Bacon
39
Who wrote
Elements of Chemistry
and together with his wife identified 33 of the elements?
Priestly
Lavoisier
Black
Franklin
40
_____ didn't believe that the earth's cycles could result in permanent extinction
Paley
Owen
Lamark
Lyell
41
Galileo's drawings of the moon were revolutionary because:
The moon was not a perfect sphere
There was a face on the moon
he moon was bigger than previously thought
It demonstrated the perfection of the cosmos
42
This Renaissance anatomist combined print technology, Renaissance art & anatomical description.
Leonardo daVinci
Robert Boyle
Andreas Vesalius
Johanes Gutenberg
43
19. Aristotle believed that you could trust your senses?
Yes, totally!
Meh, sometimes
No, never!
44
Who invented the first battery that supplied a continuous stream?
Alessandro Volta
Luigi Galvani
Benjamin Franklin
Isaac Newton
45
What did Stephen Grey's experiment with the orphan boy demonstrate?
That static was electricity.
Materials act as insulators and conductors of electricity.
That anyone could make scientific discoveries.
That ethics boards were not yet established.
46
What does Operationalism mean?
Understanding how the world works.
A new type of mathematics developed by Leibniz.
Attaining knowledge for the purpose of using it.
When physicians started doing surgery.This is a wrong answer
47
ibn Sina (Avicenna) author of
The Canon of Medicine
said this element was
prime matter
.
Hydrogen
Salt
Gold
Mercury
48
According to Aristotle's theory of Levity a book sitting on a desk is subject to forced motion.
False
True
49
Hutton argued that the story of the earth was cyclical and had a purpose, it was:
a mystery
to make the earth habitable
to demonstrate God's power
to confuse geologists
50
Lamarck's theory of evolution is called:
Spontaneous generation
Acquired traits
Orthogenisis
