The Greeks abandoned their earliest cosmological theory (planets moving in simple circles around Earth) because
A) it did not agree with their observations of the planets.
B) it seemed messy and unsatisfying.
C) they came to believe that the sun should be at the center of things.
D) they came to believe that Earth should be at the center of things.
E) Actually, they never did abandon or revise their earliest theory-- it was not altered until the time of Copernicus.
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