As the Discoveries of the New Science Spread Throughout Europe

question 57

Multiple Choice

As the discoveries of the new science spread throughout Europe,

• A)governments played no role in fostering scientific knowledge.
• B)Pascal gained a circle of wealthy followers skeptical that science would improve the human spirit.
• C)ideas of order and regularity affected architecture and landscape design.
• D)members of the wealthy classes ignored the new discoveries as uninteresting and not entertaining.
• E)public scientific events were scorned.

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