Select the correct answer. What is the main objective of the Royal Society founded in England in 1660?
A.
to promote the teachings of classical thinkers
B.
to encourage modern scientific ideas and discoveries
C.
to support the beliefs set by the church
D.
to encourage developments exclusively in the field of astronomy

the Royal Society was founded in 1660 to bring together leading scientific minds of the day, and became an international network for practical and philosophical investigation of the physical world. Today, it's the world's oldest national scientific academy.

d) a constitutional amendment

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

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