Johannes Kepler used decades of Tycho Brahe's observational data to formulate an accurate description of planetary motion. Keple
r spent almost 30 years of his life trying to develop a simple description of planetary motion based on a heliocentric model that fit Tycho's data. What conclusion did Kepler eventually come to that revolutionized the heliocentric model of the solar system?
Johannes Kepler, working with the data carefully collected by Tycho Brahe without the help of a telescope, especially those related to the retrograde motion of Mars, realized that the motion of the planets could not be explained by his model of perfect polyhedra. Coming to the conclusion that all the planets move in elliptical orbits, with the Sun in one of the foci.
