bmflr. I’ve never heard of someone retracting their work except when they found errors. That doesn’t appear to be the case with this finding.
Kepler also incorporated religious arguments and reasoning into his work, motivated by the religious conviction that God had created the world according to an intelligible plan which was accessible through the natural light of reason.
Galileo got some things wrong.
refused to accept Kepler's elliptical orbits of the planets considering the circle the "perfect" shape for planetary orbits.Galileo also said Kepler's idea that the moon caused the tides was "useless fiction."