What are Keplers laws of motion and what exactly do they mean?
Asked by: Denise Contreras Answer Born in Germany in 1571, Johannes Kepler lived in the wake of the Copernican revolution. It was a popular belief of all peoples of the known world, inherited from the Peripatetic thinkers of the ancient Greek world, that the Earth was at the centre of the universe (all objects fell toward the centre of the universe, after all…). This so-called anthropocentric system was fully supported by the Catholic Church, that punished severely those who tried to spread ideas that differed from their dogmas. Copernicus was the first to assert that it was not the earth to be at the centre of the universe, i.e. the solar system but, indeed, the sun. Kepler went further ahead, and, basing on the results gathered by astronomer Tycho Brahe whom he assisted in Prague, Czech Republic, starting in the year 1600, he formulated the laws of planetary motion. In other words, he was the first to realise that the motion of all planets is ruled by the same laws. Kepler formulat
