The great astronomer of ancient times who summarized and improved a system of circles upon circles to explain the complicated motions of the planets (and published the system in a book now called The Almagest) is:
A) Hipparchus
B) Copernicus
C) Ptolemy
D) Pythagoras
E) Alfonso the Wise
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