Multiple Choice
Copernicus
A) proposed that the Earth orbited the Sun.
B) showed how retrograde motion could be explained without epicycles if the planets all orbited the Sun.
C) neither proposed that the Earth orbited the Sun and showed how retrograde motion could be explained without epicycles if the planets all orbited the Sun.
D) both proposed that the Earth orbited the Sun and showed how retrograde motion could be explained without epicycles if the planets all orbited the Sun.
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