What Led Kepler to Abandon Circular Orbits and His Discovery

question 78

Multiple Choice

What led Kepler to abandon circular orbits and his discovery that planetary orbits are ellipses?

• A)the observation of a comet moving on a highly eccentric orbit
• B)a desire to gain prestige by using a more complicated model
• C)a deviation between observed and model values that was much larger than the observation uncertainties

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