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Problem 3QQ
Choose the best answer to the following. Explain your reasoning with one or more complete sentence.
Which of the following was not a major advantage of Copernicus’s Sun-centered model over the Ptolemaic model? (a) It made significantly better predictions of planetary positions in our sky. (b) It offered a more natural explanation for the apparent retrograde motion of planets in our sky. (c) It allowed calculation of the orbital periods and distances of the planets.
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Problem 3QQ
Choose the best answer to the following. Explain your reasoning with one or more complete sentence.
Which of the following was not a major advantage of Copernicus’s Sun-centered model over the Ptolemaic model? (a) It made significantly better predictions of planetary positions in our sky. (b) It offered a more natural explanation for the apparent retrograde motion of planets in our sky. (c) It allowed calculation of the orbital periods and distances of the planets.
ANSWER:
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We have to choose the major disadvantage of Copernicus’s Sun centric model over the Ptolemaic model.