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Kepler's law

noun

(astronomy) one of three empirical laws of planetary motion stated by Johannes Kepler. Synonym: Kepler's law of planetary motion.

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... ourselves of the false conception that Kepler's law implies Newton's interpretation of the physical universe as a dynamic entity ruled by gravity, and gravity alone, we are free to ask what this law can tell us about the nature of the universe if in examining it we try to remain ...

— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs

... Inductions have already been made. Thus Kepler's so-called law brought the orbit of Mars into the class ellipse, and by doing so, proved all the properties of an ellipse to be true of the orbit: but in this proof Kepler's law supplied the minor premise, and not (as is the case with ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

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