How Did Brahe Measure Highly Accurate Planetary Positions

question 28

Multiple Choice

How did Brahe measure highly accurate planetary positions?

• A) With the recently- invented telescope.
• B) By careful measurements of the brightness of the planets, as seen from Earth.
• C) With a new type of telescope that used mirrors instead of lenses.
• D) By his invention of the technique know as triangulation (measuring the distance between 2 points, and measuring 2 angles, to determine the distance to a 3rd point).
• E) With larger and more elegant sighting instruments.

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