The Ptolemaic model of the universe:
A) explained and predicted the motions of the planets with deferents and epicycles.
B) is the basis of our modern cosmology.
C) could not account for the stellar parallax observed by Hipparchus.
D) describes the orbits of the planets as being ellipses, not circles.
E) always kept Mars and Mercury between the Earth and Sun.
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