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Johannes Kepler produced the model of the solar system that is used today. His work, published in 1609, was based on observations of the planets' positions made by Tycho Brahe using new equipment of higher accuracy than ever before.
Kepler departed from the old models of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho which used circles and epicycles, and hit on the idea of ellpitical orbits for the six known planets. His model showed excellent agreement with the observations, which pleased Kepler but he had no idea why this was so.
About 80 years later Newton's laws of motion and law of gravity were published and he was able to show that an object under the inverse-square law of gravity must follow an elliptical orbit. It was appreciated that the planets must move in their elliptical orbits under the Sun's gravity, and Kepler's model was generally accepted.

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