Newton's world-machine had:___.

a. little impact on the Western worldview until the twentieth century.

b. indicated a rejection of the work of his predecessors.

c. created a new cosmology in which the world was seen largely in mechanistic terms.

d. refers to Newton's assertion that alchemical techniques could turn the world into a machine that generated abundant supplies of gold.

e. suggested that the secrets of the natural world could not be revealed by human investigations.