Exam 5: The Founders, Works, and Discoveries in Science

……….. built the first state observatory of modern times in Paris?

Who has been hailed as the French Newton?

Who founded the 'Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge' in 1662?

…….. think that free will is an illusion.

Flamsteed was asked to set up an observatory in Greenwich because ……

Horologium Oscillatorium is a work by ………….

The Skeptical Chemist was written by ……….

The important feature of Industrial Revolution was ………

Who introduced the concept of 'phlogiston'?

The Academe des Sciences was founded by ……..

Principia is a work by ………

……….. holds that all propositions, either about the past, present or future, are either true or false.

………. was the first to show that light has a finite velocity.

Who described light as the 'sensation of a stimulation of the retina'?

Micrographia is a work by ……….

The Berlin Academy was founded by ……..

…………. says that physical environment,rather than social conditions, determines culture.

The controversy between Newton and Huygens was related to …….

Who discovered hydrogen?

The proposition that everything is determined by God is known as ……..