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Kepler's work revealed that the Earth was at the center of the circular orbits of the planets at the center of the elliptical orbits of the planets orbiting the Sun in an elliptical orbit O at one focus of the elliptical orbit of the planets​

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at one focus of the elliptical orbit of the planets.

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orbiting the Sun in an elliptical orbit

Step-by-step explanation:

When orbits are circular, the center and the focus are the same point. For an elliptical orbit, the orbited object is at one focus of the ellipse. Kepler found planetary orbits to be elliptical with the sun at one focus.

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As with a lot of scientific theories, it only explained some of the motion. As with a lot of scientific theories, explaining the discrepancies resulted in new discoveries.

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