|Question 14Verbal

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Despite the fact that what is now known as the Cassegrain reflector was first constructed by Bonaventura Cavalieri, the telescope is named after the seventeenth-century French astronomer Laurent Cassegrain. One might assume cases like this, where a discovery or concept is not named after the first person who discovered it, to be        among a litany of examples of Stigler's law.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
rare, on the contrary,
A
rare, on the contrary;
B
rare on the contrary,
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rare; on the contrary, they are counted
D