The Ptolemaic model of the universe troubled Copernicus mainly because
A) it disagreed with observations of the planets.
B) it contradicted the Biblical cosmology.
C) its mathematics was so complex.
D) it contradicted Aristotle's cosmology.
E) it lacked internal consistency.
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