Galileo's Confirmation of the Copernican System Led Him To

question 12

Multiple Choice

Galileo's confirmation of the Copernican system led him to:

• A) accept the Ptolemaic interpretation as fact.
• B) win the approval of the Church.
• C) believe in the accidental disorder of the universe.
• D) downplay the use of mathematics.
• E) believe in the orderly relations of nature.

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