Which planets orbited the Sun in Tycho Brahe’s model?

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In the Tychonic system, proposed by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, all five planets known at the time—Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn—orbited the Sun.12

While Brahe maintained a geocentric model where the Sun and the Moon revolved around a fixed Earth, he correctly posited that the other planets circled the Sun. This hybrid model was designed to incorporate the mathematical advantages of the Copernican system while retaining the traditional view of Earth as the stationary center of the universe.13