How did Brahe measure highly accurate planetary positions?
A) With the recently- invented telescope.
B) By careful measurements of the brightness of the planets, as seen from Earth.
C) With a new type of telescope that used mirrors instead of lenses.
D) By his invention of the technique know as triangulation (measuring the distance between 2 points, and measuring 2 angles, to determine the distance to a 3rd point).
E) With larger and more elegant sighting instruments.

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Brahe used large and precise sighting instruments, such as quadrants and sextants, to measure the positions of celestial bodies with high accuracy, without the aid of telescopes.

How Did Brahe Measure Highly Accurate Planetary Positions