"In the 1590s... Kepler adopted the ideas of Copernicus. In the heliocentric model... the simultaneous motion of the earth around the sun and about its own axis explained the observed motion of the planets and stars. Kepler set out to prove that this... hypothesis... an attempt to "save the appearances", did... correspond with reality. In doing so, however, he noticed that the circular orbits... proposed by Copernicus were not in keeping with his... observations. ...Kepler wanted... to glorify God, who... was responsible for the harmonious arrangement of the universe... This aim is... in the... first lines of the preface to The Secret of the Cosmos: "It is my intention... to show... that the most great and good Creator, in the creation of this moving universe and the arrangement of the heavens, looked to these five regular solids... so celebrated from the time of Pythagoras and Plato... and that he fitted to the nature of those solids the number of the heavens, their proportions and the law of their motions.""
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