GmatGreen wrote:Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as a person standing on land.

(A) water as a

(B) water as to a

(C) water; just as it would to a

(D) water, as it would to the

(E) water; just as to the

GmatGreen wrote:Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as a person standing on land.

(A) water as a

(B) water as to a

(C) water; just as it would to a

(D) water, as it would to the

(E) water; just as to the

Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:

GmatGreen wrote:Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as a person standing on land.

(A) water as a

(B) water as to a

(C) water; just as it would to a

(D) water, as it would to the

(E) water; just as to the

We're comparing how natural phenomena appear to two different people: someone on a ship and a person standing on land. The first half is not underlined (would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship..., so we have to adjust the second part to be parallel. B is good; it would appear the same to X as to Y.