England's Royal Society and France's Royal Academy of Sciences Demonstrated

question 35

Multiple Choice

England's Royal Society and France's Royal Academy of Sciences demonstrated the

• A) many opportunities for common, everyday people to pursue scholarship in the sciences.
• B) benefits of state-supported inquiry and learning.
• C) depletion in government resources, resulting in its inability to support the sciences.
• D) government's acceptance of radical speculations like those of Spinoza.
• E) government's attempts to tarnish the "gentlemanly" reputation of the republic of letters.

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