In 1785, William Herschel Proposed That the Solar System Was

question 18

Multiple Choice

In 1785, William Herschel proposed that the solar system was at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. How did he reach this conclusion?

• A) Like the ancient Greeks and many of their successors for over a thousand years, Herschel based his conclusion on the philosophical importance of Earth in the cosmos.
• B) Herschel's observations suggested that the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy were distributed uniformly around Earth.
• C) Herschel measured distances to globular clusters and determined that they were distributed uniformly around Earth.
• D) Herschel determined that Cepheid variable stars in the Milky Way Galaxy were distributed uniformly around Earth.

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