What was so significant about Tycho Brahe's observations of the position of the planets that enabled Kepler to eventually come up with his theory that planets orbit the Sun in ellipses rather than circles? If Kepler did not have access to Tycho's data, do you think he would have came up with the same theory, or do you think he would have preferred either the Copernican or Ptolemaic theory?

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