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AP Success - AP European History: The Scientific Revolution Explored

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"Since the ancients esteemed the science of mechanics of greatest importance in the investigation of natural things, and the moderns, rejecting substantial forms and occult qualities, have endeavoured to subject the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics, I have in this treatise cultivated mathematics as far as it relates to natural philosophy. The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect; as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. But as artificers do not work with perfect accuracy, it comes to pass that mechanics is so distinguished from geometry that what is perfectly accurate is called geometrical; what is less so, is called mechanical. However, the errors are not in the art, but in the artificers. He that works with less accuracy is an imperfect mechanic; and if any could work with perfect accuracy he would be the most perfect mechanic of all."

Issac Newton, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, 1687

Question 1

Multiple choice

Which of the following best reflects the change in scientific thought during the Scientific Revolution as described by Isaac Newton?

Question 2

Multiple choice

According to Isaac Newton, what distinguishes 'mechanical' from 'geometrical'?

Question 3

Multiple choice

What does Isaac Newton imply about the relationship between practical mechanics and the manual arts?

Question 4

Multiple choice

Newton's discussion of 'errors' in the context of mechanics and artificers suggests which of the following?

Question 5

Multiple choice

The passage by Isaac Newton would be most useful to historians analyzing which of the following aspects of the Scientific Revolution?

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