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How did Newton’s work support the earlier work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo?

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Answer:Copernicus had thought. Galileo used a telescope to apply his understanding of motion and further validate Copernicus's heliocentric theory. ... Main scientists had observed planets moving around the sun but this theory finally explained why.

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Kepler identified the orbits of the planets were ellipses (ovals) not circluar as Copernicus had thought.

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