When the Catholic Reformation drove the New Sciences to northwestern Europe, the Italian-style academies gave way to chartered royal societies, the first of which was founded in ______ in 1660.
a. France.
b. Britain.
c. Sweden.
d. Prussia.
b. Britain.
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