The greatest contribution of the Greeks to modern thought was:
A) the idea that all the planets orbited the Sun.
B) that their mythology was the basis for the naming of the constellations.
C) that their observation of stellar parallax proved the Earth orbited the Sun.
D) the development of scientific inquiry and model building.
E) the invention of the telescope.
D
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