What was Copernicus's main objection to the Ptolemaic model of the cosmos?
A) It was unnecessarily complicated, for the cosmos should be a work of simplicity.
B) It held that the Earth revolved around the sun, which contradicted commonsense evidence.
C) It was constructed by pagans and was inconsistent with Biblical evidence.
D) The orbits of the heavenly bodies did not make mathematical sense.
E) The model had not taken Plato's philosophical concepts into consideration.
Answer: A
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