Four hundred years ago, for example, Johannes Kepler discovered three marvelous geometrical laws that
describe planetary motion.
Kepler
described planetary motion.
Not exact matches
Kepler's laws of
planetary motion described accurately how the planets move.
This confirmed Kepler's three laws of
planetary motion, which had so far been unexplained even though they correctly
described how the planets moved.
Modern physics began with a sweeping unification: in 1687 Isaac Newton showed that the existing jumble of disparate theories
describing everything from
planetary motion to tides to pendulums were all aspects of a universal law of gravitation.
Construction of this horizontally - scrolled version of the chart began in April 2016 to follow more easily the progression of the doublings of each Planck In astronomy, Kepler's laws of
planetary motion are three scientific laws
describing the
motion of planets around the Sun.