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Sajjad1994 Please provide an explanation to #5.

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5. The author suggests that cases of simultaneous discovery

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This choice paraphrases the first sentence of the last paragraph.

Choice (A) goes too far. The author does stress the preliminary work done by others, but doesn’t suggest that the discovery of the calculus (or similar discoveries) was not a breakthrough.

Choice (B) is contradicted in the first paragraph.

Choice (C) is not implied—we don’t know what influences Leibniz, Newton, Darwin, et al., may have been aware of. Newton is the only example given of delayed publication, making choice (E) unlikely.

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6. In the final paragraph the author draws connections between the work of Leibniz and Newton and the work of Copernicus and Kepler primarily in order to

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This is a logic question—what is the author trying to do by drawing this connection? Copernicus and Kepler are mentioned in the fourth sentence of the last paragraph, in the context of the series of scientific and mathematical advances that “prepared the ground” for Newton and Leibniz. So the point is that science builds on earlier work; it is evolutionary even when making great advances.

The “great man” view in choice (A) probably refers to the misconception that breakthroughs are “solitary acts of genius” (first sentence of paragraph 4); this is not the author’s view.

Choice (B) is a big overstatement; the passage says that simultaneous discoveries occur often, not all the time.

Choice (C) overstates the case. The author doesn’t think independent discovery is a myth at all. Newton and Leibniz are examples of independent discovery. Neither one, of course, was wholly “independent” of previous developments, but their discoveries were made on their own.

Choice (E) never happens. Physicists, or at least astronomers, are mentioned, as are mathematicians, but they are not compared.

Answer: D
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