Kepler’s laws of planetary motion: Facts & Related Content
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- Kepler was the assistant of Tycho Brahe, a prevalent astronomer who worked before the invention of the telescope.
- Kepler confirmed that Galileo's heliocentric view of the universe (as opposed to Brahe's more popular, mostly geocentric view of the universe) was correct.
- Kepler reached his conclusions while using Brahe's careful astronomical observations to define the orbit of Mars.
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Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
