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No, that is what he didn't do. Ptolemy had already done that and basked in the glory for 1400 years. Copernicus thought that the planets' orbits could be explained more simply by considering the Sun as being at the centre, which would need fewer violent movements on the part of the planets to explain the way they move. So his 'De Revolutionibus' book published in 1543 had a new model that still used circles and epicycles, but had the Sun at the centre and smaller epicycles, especially for Venus and Mars.

1543 was also the year Copernicus died, and he was nervous about publishing the book because he knew the church's teaching at that time went along with The Bible in saying the Earth is fixed at the centre of the universe.

The later theory we use today still has the Sun at the centre, but all the old circles were thrown out by Kepler who hit on the idea of elliptical orbits instead.

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