GRE Reading Comprehension: ETS-GRE阅读ETS - RWA68N1PW1KBZWBA7

The author's discussion of the political significance of the "wage relationship" serves to A. place the failure of seventeenth-century scientists to acknowledge the contributions of their technicians in the large context of relations between workers and their employers in seventeenth-century England B. provide evidence in support of the author's more general thesis regarding the relationship of scientific discovery to the economic conditions of societies in which it takes place C. provide evidence in support of the author's explanation of why scientists in seventeenth-century England were reluctant to rely on their technicians for the performance of anything but the most menial tasks D. illustrate political and economic changes in the society of seventeenth-century England that had a profound impact on how scientific research was conduced E. undermine the view that scientific discovery results from individual enterprise rather than from the collective endeavor of many workers