Which is a correct statement about the development of Copernicus's model after his death

After Copernicus's death in 1543, his heliocentric model of the solar system laid the groundwork for future astronomers. The most significant development was the work of Johannes Kepler, who, in the early 17th century, refined Copernicus's model by introducing elliptical orbits to describe planetary motion, thus moving away from the perfect circular orbits that Copernicus had proposed. Kepler's laws of planetary motion provided a more accurate and predictive framework for understanding the orbits of planets around the sun. This advancement represented a critical shift in astronomical science and eventually led to Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation, further solidifying the heliocentric view of the solar system.