QB/AstroPtolCopTycho

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1 The Ptolemaic system was geocentric.

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2 An argument used to support the geocentric model held that heavenly bodies, while perhaps large, were able to move quickly.

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3 Tycho tended to favor religious arguments over scientific arguments when justifying his opinions about the geocentric/heliocentric controversy.

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4 Tycho was the first to propose an earth-orbiting sun had planets in orbit around the Sun.

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5 The Ptolemaic system was heliocentric.

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6 Most ancient Roman and most medieval scholars thought the Earth was flat.

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7 Evidence for the Copernican system is that the Earth does not seem to move.

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8 The ancient Greeks believed in circular orbits, causing them to devise the epicycle and the deferent.

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9 Copernicus was a university-trained Catholic priest dedicated to astronomy.

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10 In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe invented his system to resolve philosophical and what he called “physical" problems with the geocentric theory.

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11 Copernicus shared his heliocentric theory with colleagues decades before he died.

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12 In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe invented his system to resolve philosophical and what he called “physical" problems with the heliocentric theory.

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