They proposed the idea that the sun is the center of the universe. this started the scientific revolution.
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Nothing. Copernicus died years before Kepler was born.
Kepler showed that planetary orbits were actually ellipses, not circles as proposed by Copernicus.
Johannes Kepler
Kepler formulated laws of planetary motion, while Copernicus merely(!) proposed that the sun was the center of the solar system rather than the earth.
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