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Which of the following best describes why the Greeks rejected the correct explanation for apparent retrograde motion? (a) They did not realize that planets sometimes appear to move backward relative to the constellations. (b) They predict that if Earth orbited the Sun, then stellar parallax should occur, but they could not detect this parallax. (c) They never even considered the possibility that Earth could orbit the Sun.

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