Brahe's work was vital in confirming mathematically the Copernican heliocentric hypothesis.

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Brahe's work actually rejected the Copernican heliocentric hypothesis and instead proposed his own model of the universe with the sun and moon orbiting around the Earth while the other planets orbited around the sun. It was actually Kepler who used Brahe's observations to confirm the heliocentric hypothesis mathematically with his three laws of planetary motion.

Brahe's Work Was Vital in Confirming Mathematically the Copernican Heliocentric