Copernicus's model for planetary motion:
A) got rid of epicycles entirely.
B) retained epicycles to reproduce retrograde motion.
C) retained epicycles to reproduce the observed variations in the speeds of the planets along their orbits.
D) retained epicycles but made them elliptical.
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