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← HistoryWhich purpose benefitted from Islamic scholars improving Ptolemaic models for planetary motion?
A)Advancing calendar accuracy✓
B)Discovering stellar parallax
C)Confirming geocentric theory
D)Predicting solar eclipses
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Improved models refined epicycle calculations reducing errors; this enhanced calendar accuracy because the refined motion models updated predicted positions more accurately. Therefore calendars improved, rather than eclipse forecasting, parallax measurements or confirmation of existing theories.
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