Johannes Kepler: Discovering the Laws of Celestial Motion

Johannes Kepler used the extensive data collected by his one-time patron Tycho Brahe to develop his Three Laws of Planetary Motion. In the process, he freed astronomy from its insistence on circular orbits, reinforced Copernicus’s heliocentric system, and set the stage for the great synthesis of Isaac Newton.

 
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