Multiple Choice
Copernicus believed that his work:
A) restored a pure understanding of God's design.
B) broke with the ideas of the Catholic Church.
C) was an attack on the authority of ancient texts.
D) did not contradict centuries of astronomical thought.
E) was used by the Catholic Church to refute the ideas of Aristotle.
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