Bernard de Fontenelle helped to usher in the Enlightenment by
A) being the greatest popularizer of the new science.
B) acting as Louis XIV's chief minister and director of the Academie des Sciences.
C) his relentless attacks on the Catholic Church.
D) his rigorous scientific investigation.
E) taking a negative view of a secular world.
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