AFRAID OF BEING CONDEMNED AS GALILEO GALILEI HAD BEEN, RENE DESCAR...

20. Afraid of being condemned as Galileo Galilei had been, Rene Descartes chose not to publish The

World, which was his work on cosmology and physics.

A.

Rene Descartes became worried that Galileo Galilei would condemn his book The World, which

he had written on cosmology and physics, so he decided not to have it published.

B.

Rene Descartes had written on cosmology and physics in The World, but he decided not to have it

printed because he didn’t want to receive the same condemnation as Galileo Galilei.

C.

Because Galileo Galilei’s work on cosmology and physics had been banned, Rene Descartes

published his book The World reluctantly.

D.

Rene Descartes was worried about his condemnation of Galileo Galilei in his book The World,

which was on cosmology and physics, so he decided not to publish it.