Author Question: The Greeks abandoned their earliest cosmological theory (planets moving in simple circles around ... (Read 51 times)

09madisonrousseau09 · **on:** Jul 29, 2018

The Greeks abandoned their earliest cosmological theory (planets moving in simple circles around Earth) because

A) it did not agree with their observations of the planets.
B) it seemed messy and unsatisfying.
C) they came to believe that Earth should be at the center of things.
D) they came to believe that the sun should be at the center of things.
E) Actually, they never did abandon or revise their earliest theory--it was not altered until the time of Copernicus.

Question 2

The very earliest Greek cosmological theory, several centuries before Ptolemy, stated that

A) the planets revolve in loop-the-loops circles within circles around Earth.
B) the entire universe is in reality just the inside of a giant cosmic frog.
C) the planets go in simple circles around the sun.
D) the planets go in simple circles around Earth.
E) the planets revolve in loop-the-loops around the sun.