A student is revising a passage about the history of cartography. The current sentence reads: 'Early mapmakers, lacking access to aerial perspectives, relied on traveler accounts and dead reckoning, techniques that introduced systematic error into their representations of coastlines.' The student wants to add a phrase that acknowledges a counterintuitive finding without undermining the sentence's critical tone. Which addition best accomplishes this?
A) '—yet produced works of surprising navigational utility—'
B) ', which were nonetheless considered artistic masterpieces,'
C) ', even though travelers were often unreliable sources,'
D) '—a limitation that was largely unrecognized at the time—'
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A
—yet produced works of surprising navigational utility—
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B
, which were nonetheless considered artistic masterpieces,
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C
, even though travelers were often unreliable sources,
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D
—a limitation that was largely unrecognized at the time—