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How did Kepler discover the planet laws?

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While Copernicus rightly observed that the planets revolve around the Sun, it was Kepler who correctly defined their orbits. ... read more

Eighty years later, calculus was discovered by Newton which enabled Kepler's laws to be derived mathematically. Kepler was given observational data by Tycho Brahe. He was given the task of explaining the motion of Mars from the data. read more

Kepler did not have a force law to guide him. However Newton using his three laws of motion and the force law for gravity deduced that for two bodies, the motions must be conic sections and the bounded motions would be ellipses. read more

Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, in astronomy and classical physics, laws describing the motions of the planets in the solar system. They were derived by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, whose analysis of the observations of the 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe enabled him to announce his first two laws in the year 1609 and a third law nearly a decade later, in 1618. read more

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