Multiple Choice
What led Kepler to abandon circular orbits and his discovery that planetary orbits are ellipses?
A) the observation of a comet moving on a highly eccentric orbit
B) a desire to gain prestige by using a more complicated model
C) a deviation between observed and model values that was much larger than the observation uncertainties
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