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ID: DSAT-RW-40
Section: Digital SAT Reading & Writing (RW) - Broadly Reading - Information and Ideas
Topic: Inferences
Difficulty level: Medium

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Compiled in the early 1400s by court astronomers working with naked-eye observations, the Celestial Guide is the most comprehensive star atlas in Old Persian. Marginal notes indicate that much of its content predates the 17th-century introduction of telescopes to the region. Nonetheless, several entries describe Jupiter's moons and the flattened "ringed" shape of Saturn—phenomena recorded in Europe only after telescopic observation. Thus, some scholars have concluded that __________

Which choice most logically completes the text?

Awhile its core predates the telescope, the Celestial Guide also contains additions made after telescopic discoveries became known.

Bthe astronomers who compiled the Celestial Guide possessed only a rudimentary understanding of classical Greco-Arabic astronomy.

CPersian observers identified Jupiter's moons and Saturn's rings without the aid of telescopes centuries before Europeans did.

Dthe references to Jupiter and Saturn should be attributed to coincidental similarities between mythic descriptions and later scientific findings.

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