Newton's World-Machine

question 25

Multiple Choice

Newton's world-machine

• A)refers to Newton's assertion that alchemical techniques could turn the world into a machine that generated abundant supplies of gold.
• B)had little impact on the Western worldview until the twentieth century.
• C)suggested that the secrets of the natural world could not be revealed by human investigations.
• D)created a new cosmology in which the world was seen largely in mechanistic terms.
• E)indicated a rejection of the work of his predecessors.

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