What contribution to astronomy was made by Tycho Brahe?. Physics & Astronomy

Retrograde motion must be explained by epicycles larger than those of Ptolemy
The Earth is not the center of the Universe
His observations of planetary motion with great accuracy proved circular orbits could not work
His telescope revealed the moons of Jupiter before Galileo noted them
The planets' orbits around the Sun are ellipses, not circles.

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