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The slow ________ of Mercury was first determined using radar signals sent from Earth.
 
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Of the Ptolemaic and Copernican models, who wins the battle of Occam's Razor for the simplest explanation of retrograde motions?
 
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Answer to Question 1

rotation

Answer to Question 2

Copernicus simply had retrograde motion resulting from the different speeds of the planets, with retrograding occurring any time one planet overtook another. Ptolemy by contrast needed complex deferents, epicycles, and equants to handle the complex planetary motions.




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Reply 2 on: Jul 27, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Excellent

 

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