The historian of ancient science Otto Neugebauer concluded that Babylonian astronomical texts
are (i)_____ because everything has been eliminated from the astronomy except observations and
the mathematical consequences of an initial hypothesis about the fundamental character of the
astronomical movements. This judgment cohered with the high level of mathematical theory, which
(ii)_____ mathematical computation together with empirical observations as (iii)_____ of science
and denied any role to speculative hypotheses of a strongly theoretical nature.

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A. questionable
B. scientific
C. limited

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D. repudiated
E. admitted
F. confounded

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G. end result
H. necessary characteristics
I. discredited path