The initial reason that the geocentric model for the solar system began to be discarded after the fifteenth century a.d.was that:
A) observations by spacecraft proved that all planets orbit the Sun.
B) the invention of the telescope provided observations that were in better agreement with a heliocentric model.
C) Isaac Newton was able to derive all planetary motion from one universal law of gravity.
D) the heliocentric model is conceptually simpler.
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