Scientific investigation in seventeenth-century England was
A) greatly retarded by civil war and political upheaval.
B) of little interest to influential people.
C) limited to military technology.
D) caught up in and stimulated by religious and political controversy.
E) personified by the life of Robert Boyle who was mainly interested in astronomy.
Ans: D
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