NOUN
- (astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler
How To Use Kepler's law In A Sentence
- Kepler's Laws formed the foundation of the higher conception of astronomy, that is, the dynamical theory of astronomical phenomena, and prepared the way for the "Mécanique Céleste. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
- He therefore accepted Kepler's theory of elliptical orbits for the planets and tested Kepler's laws by direct observation.
- Collectively Kepler's Laws superseded the ancient Ptolemaic concept of a spherical universe with epicyclic motion.
