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KEPLER’S LAWS,

KEPLER’S LAWS,. three laws concerning the motions of planets formulated by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler early in the 17th century. Kepler based his laws on planetary data collected by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, to whom he . . .

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