Which idea did Ptolemy’s model use to explain why the planets appeared to move backward as they moved in their orbits?

Ptolemy explained the planets’ apparent backward motion, called retrograde motion, by proposing that each planet moved in a small circle called an epicycle while also traveling along a larger circle around Earth. This made a planet appear to reverse direction from time to time. The correct choice is “The planets spun in epicycles.”

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