Early Astronomers Believed That Earth Did Not Move Because They

question 49

Multiple Choice

Early astronomers believed that Earth did not move because they saw no ____, the apparent motion of an object because of the motion of the observer.

• A) uniform circular motion
• B) archeoastronomy
• C) heliocentrism
• D) eccentricity
• E) parallax

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