Perhaps the Major Scientific Event of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth

question 8

Multiple Choice

Perhaps the major scientific event of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was the:

• A) founding of universities.
• B) end of the Inquisition.
• C) success of empiricism.
• D) triumph of Scholasticism.
• E) introduction of deductive methods.

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