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What is the core belief of Geocentrism

copernicus followed what form of physics when coming up with his heliocentric model?

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copernicus followed what form of physics when coming up with his heliocentric model?
Newtonian physics
Einstein’s theory of relativity
Aristotelian Physics
Ptolemaic model
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What is the core belief of Geocentrism
Earth is the center of the Universe
Earth is flat
Earth is the entire Universe
Earth the Nexus, the center of the Universe
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Which of the following was not a reason Tycho Brahe rejected the Copernican heliocentric model?
He felt Earth revolving around the Sun contradicted his religious belief
He believed humans would be able to feel the Earth’s moving
⁠Religious authorities pressured him to reject heliocentrism
He could not detect stellar parallax
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How did Galileo Galilei prove the heliocentric model
He used binoculars to look at the sun
mathematical calculations to predict the orbits of celestial objects
Tralalelo Tralala
He used a telescope to look at Venus’s phases
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Which of Kepler’s Laws did he discover first?
Zeroth Law
Third Law
First Law
Second Law
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What was 1 of the possibilities for why the stars didn't seem to move in the sky
The stars were very far away
The stars are actually alien spaceships
The stars were painted onto the night sky
The stars were a hoax made by the government