Which statement is false?

A  If you lived on Mercury, you would notice that Earth exhibits retrograde motion for a while every year.

B  According to Kepler’s first law, the orbit of planets are ellipses with the Sun at one focus; there is no object at the second focus.

C  Our observations of a full or gibbous Venus provide evidence against the Ptolemaic, Earth-centered model of the Solar System

D  As seen from Earth’s surface, planets rise in the east and set in the west, even when they undergo retrograde motion.

E  Copernicus’ model of the Solar System was accepted shortly after being proposed, because it provided significantly more accurate positions of the planets than did the Ptolemaic system.