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How did Galileo increase public support for Copernicus’s model?

by publishing his work in Italian
by using data collected by Tycho Brahe
by explaining why planets appear to move backward
by arguing that Earth’s rotation makes objects appear to move in the sky

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- by publishing his work in Italian
- by explaining why planets appear to move backward

Galileo made Copernican ideas accessible to the general public by writing in Italian (not Latin) and used telescopic observations (e.g., the phases of Venus and the apparent motions of planets) to show that retrograde motion is an apparent effect of relative motion, supporting the heliocentric model.