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What is the difference between copernicus and kepler description of planetary orbits?

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Kepler refined the Copernican model. Orbits are not circles along which planets move at a constant speed, but ellipses, in the central focus of which is the Sun. The planet moves in an ellipse with a variable speed depending on the distance to the Sun. On this basis, Kepler significantly simplified the Copernican model and formulated the laws of planetary motion in their orbits.

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