Newton's World-Machine

Multiple Choice

Newton's world-machine

A) refers to Newton's assertion that alchemical techniques could turn the world into a machine that generated abundant supplies of gold.
B) had little impact on the Western worldview until the twentieth century.
C) suggested that the secrets of the natural world could not be revealed by human investigations.
D) created a new cosmology in which the world was seen largely in mechanistic terms.
E) indicated a rejection of the work of his predecessors.