Kepler's laws of planetary motion Summary

Kepler's Laws Johannes Kepler made it his life's work to create a heliocentric (sun-centered) model of the solar system which would accurately represent the observed motion in the sky of the Moon and ... Read more

Kepler's Second Law and Angular Momentum German astronomer Johannes Kepler is credited with demonstrating that abandoning an Earth-centered, or Ptolemaic, view of planetary motion for a Sun-centered, ... Read more