Text 1: Historian Park argues that medieval European universities were the cradles of modern science. The University of Paris, Oxford, and Bologna trained scholars in Aristotelian logic, mathematics, and natural philosophy, providing the intellectual infrastructure later inherited by the Scientific Revolution.
Text 2: Historian Singh accepts that universities preserved learning but argues that the actual breakthroughs of the Scientific Revolution happened largely outside them. Galileo, Boyle, and Newton worked in courts, royal societies, and private patronage networks; universities, bound by Aristotelian curricula, often resisted the new science. The cradle, Singh contends, was elsewhere.
The authors most clearly disagree about
- A
whether Galileo conducted scientific work.
- B
whether Aristotle was studied in medieval universities.
- C
whether medieval universities existed.
- Dcheck_circle
where the Scientific Revolution's actual work primarily took place.
Explanation
Both accept the universities and Aristotelian study. They differ on where the new science took place. B captures the dispute.