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Which of the Following Statements About the Significance of Isaac

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Which of the following statements about the significance of Isaac Newton's work in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries is correct?


A) Newton's work suggested the opacity of nature's mysteries and humans' inability to pinpoint a simple set of natural laws.
B) Through simple, easily understood equations, Newton's work seemed to restore the physical universe to the perfection attributed to it by Ptolemy.
C) Newton's work was in opposition to Johannes Kepler's ideas; it represented a break from the work of other astronomers of the time.
D) Newton's work was revolutionary because it introduced the idea that Earth exerted an identical pull on all objects.
E) Newton's work clashed with the work of John Locke, leading to the Enlightenment concept that from birth, humans are imprinted with innate ideas about the physical properties of the universe.

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