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Kepler thought that the planets were all rotating on giant celestial spheres which were stacked between the 5 platonic solids.
You can read about this in his book: Mysterium Cosmographicum
Copernicus thought the planets orbits are circular, kepler decided they are elliptical. This however took him many years to discover, as also he thought that they were circular for a very long time.
It was when one of the top astronomers of that time died (Tycho Brathe) and he got hold of his data that Kepler could finally make accurate calculations.
From these calculations he found that the planets must have elliptical orbits, and he chose to believe Brathe's data rather than the age old belief in circular orbits.
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