Multiple Choice
The founding of the Royal Society of London and the Academy of Sciences in France in the 1660s:
A) took place at the initiative of the great universities such as Oxford and the Sorbonne.
B) showed the increasing specialization of scientific knowledge.
C) helped institutionalize the pursuit of natural knowledge.
D) All of these are correct.
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