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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Galileo's observations and experiments confirmed the heliocentric model proposed by Copernicus, which posited that the Earth and other planets orbit the sun. This led him to see the universe as governed by predictable, mathematical laws, indicating an orderly nature rather than a chaotic or accidentally disordered one.

Galileo's Confirmation of the Copernican System Led Him To