The general heliocentric model proposed by Copernicus was appealing, and eventually became preferred, because
A) it explained why we do not observe stellar parallax.
B) it replaced Earth with the Sun as the center of the solar system.
C) it was more aesthetically pleasing than the complicated Ptolemaic model.
D) it made more accurate predictions than the Ptolemaic model.
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