The correct answer is D) Both made scientific discoveries that contributed to later European developments, including the Industrial Revolution.
Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle were similar in that both made scientific discoveries that contributed to later European developments, including the Industrial Revolution.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was great Irish scientists that made important discoveries in his time, such as the fact that the volume of a gas decreases when the pressure is increased. That was known as Boyle's law. Isaac Newton (1643-1727) was an English scientist who stablished his laws of physics, a great discovery that impulsed the Scientific Revolution in Europe. He wrote "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, in 1687, one of the most influential documents in modern physics.