The purpose of using epicycles and deferents to explain the motion of the planets in the night sky was to account for

a. prograde motion.
b. Mercury and Venus' limited angular distance from the Sun.
c. retrograde motion.
d. non-uniform speed of the planets in their orbits.
e. precession of the equinoxes.


C

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What will be an ideal response?

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