Kepler's laws are fundamental to understanding celestial mechanics: 1. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci. 2. A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time. 3. The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.
The laws of planetary motion were discovered by
Asked in Assistant Conservator of Forest Exam 2019 · Topic: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment (Key figures and astronomical breakthroughs: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton)
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