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08 March - Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.

 

On 08 March 1618, Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion.

Kepler's laws of planetary motion are three scientific laws describing the motion of planets around the Sun, published by Johannes Kepler between 1609 and 1619. These improved the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus, replacing its circular orbits with epicycles with elliptical trajectories, and explaining how planetary velocities vary.

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