Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The seventeenth-century physicist Sir Isaac Newton is remembered chief

I felt this was an easier one if I think of the other LSAT CR questions I have seen . Reasoning below:

The seventeenth-century physicist Sir Isaac Newton is remembered chiefly for his treatises on motion and gravity. But Newton also conducted experiments
secretly for many years based on the arcane theories of alchemy, trying unsuccessfully to transmute common metals into gold and produce
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