Multiple Choice
The greatest inaccuracy in Copernicus's model of the solar system was that the planets
A) traveled in circular orbits with uniform motion.
B) traveled on epicycles whose centers followed orbits around the sun.
C) traveled in elliptical orbits.
D) were allowed to travel backwards in their orbits.
E) orbited the sun.
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