Give the date of this selection and indicate the best statement that identifies the selection and its historical significance

"This man, so great, that all that is, is his.
Oh what a trifle, and poor thing he is.. . .
An the new Philosophy calls all in doubt,
The Element of fire is quite put out;
The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit
Can well direct him where to look for it.
And freely men confess that this world's spent,
When in the Planets, and the Firmament
They seek so many new; they see that this
Is crumbled out again to his Atomies.
'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone;
All just supply, and all Relation." 

Date________________

Answer__________________ Enter the letter of the best statement describing this selection and its historical significan.

A. This is part of Galileo's book, The Starry Messenger, a work of the Scientific Revolution that supported the geocentric theory of the universe.

B. This is a selection from John Donne's An Anatomie of the World:  The First Anniversary, which expressed the cultural malaise and uncertainty that characterized a major aspect of the general crisis of the seventeenth century.

C. A poem by Blaize Pascal inserted in his Pensees, a work defending the need for Christian faith in an era when science, he believed, was undermining the need for religion.

D. A sonnet by Shakespeare that expressed doubts about the new, geocentric conception of the universe.

Answer: see this lecture note