The standard account of the scientific revolution credits a small set of seventeenth-century European thinkers—Galileo, Descartes, Newton—with transforming humanity's understanding of nature. Recent histories have challenged this narrative, pointing to important contributions from Islamic, Indian, and Chinese scholars whose work circulated in Europe in the centuries beforehand. ______ , some historians argue that the very notion of a single "revolution" obscures a longer, more diffuse process of cumulative change to which many cultures contributed.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
- A
By contrast
- B
For example
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Going further
- D
However
Explanation
The third sentence pushes the argument from the second even further. "Going further" signals escalation/extension. The others do not capture this intensifying-additive move.