In what ways did the work of Copernicus and Galileo differ from the views of the ancient Greeks and of their contemporaries? Explain how Kepler was able to find a relationship (his third law) between ...In what ways did the work of Copernicus and Galileo differ from the views of the ancient Greeks and of their contemporaries? Explain how Kepler was able to find a relationship (his third law) between the orbital periods and distances of the planets that did not depend on the masses of the planets or the Sun. Within the pyramid, archaeologists discovered a shaft leading from the central chamber out of the pyramid, oriented for favorable viewing of the bright star Thuban at that time.