Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the
water as a person standing on land.
A. water as a
B. water as to a
C. water; just as it would to
D. water, as it would to the
E. water; just as to the
ANS :
CHOICE A:
Incorrect:
The sentence has the parallelism and the idiom errors
CHOICE B:
Correct:
The two objects compared here “to someone” and “to a person” are now parallel to each other. This also rectifies the idiom error.
CHOICE C
Incorrect:
1) Semi-colon joins an Independent Clause with a Dependent Clause.
2) Singular pronoun “it” has been used to refer to plural noun “phenomena”.
CHOICE D
Incorrect:
This choice repeats the pronoun error spotted in Choice C.
CHOICE E
Incorrect:
Semicolon should be used to join two independent clause. Here, what follows semicolon is a fragment as it does not have a subject-verb pair.
hope this helps .

is it 'those or they'? also can you rephrase the correct sentence in D?