Kepler's
Laws of motion
Kepler's is the possessive form of the astronomer Johannes Kepler, appearing most often in Kepler's laws—three principles describing planetary motion around the sun.
These laws established that planets orbit in ellipses, not circles, and laid groundwork for Newtonian physics.
Kepler's laws revolutionized our understanding of the solar system.
Enforceable societal rules
- orbitsCurved paths around bodies
- planetary motionMovement of worlds around stars
- ellipsesMarks indicating omitted text
- MarsRed planet, war deity
Tycho Brahe · harmonics · eccentricity · perihelion · aphelion · ephemeris · conjunctions · transits
Wave bending between media
- lensesCurved transparent refractors
- visionAbility to see
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
- camera obscuraDark chamber, projected image
eyepiece · magnification · focal length · light rays · retina · cornea · pupil · glasses
Federal space exploration bureau
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- exoplanetsWorlds orbiting other stars
- photometryMeasuring light intensity
- habitable zoneRegion allowing liquid water
mission · discoveries · supernova · crater · asteroid · nomenclature · scientific revolution · Galileo
Guess from limited facts
- polyhedraMulti-faced geometric solids
- tessellationGapless plane coverage
- Platonic solidsFive perfectly symmetrical 3D shapes
- geometryScience of spatial relationships
logarithms · infinitesimals · volumes · conic sections · optimization · honeycomb · lattice · mathematical proof
laws
Enforceable societal rules
- orbitsCurved paths around bodies
- planetary motionMovement of worlds around stars
- ellipsesMarks indicating omitted text
Mars · Tycho Brahe · harmonics · eccentricity · perihelion · aphelion · ephemeris · conjunctions · transits · epicycles
refraction
Wave bending between media
- lensesCurved transparent refractors
- visionAbility to see
- telescopeInstrument magnifying faraway objects
camera obscura · eyepiece · magnification · focal length · light rays · retina · cornea · pupil · glasses
NASA
Federal space exploration bureau
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- exoplanetsWorlds orbiting other stars
- photometryMeasuring light intensity
habitable zone · mission · discoveries · supernova · crater · asteroid · nomenclature · scientific revolution · Galileo · Newton
conjecture
Guess from limited facts
- polyhedraMulti-faced geometric solids
- tessellationGapless plane coverage
- Platonic solidsFive perfectly symmetrical 3D shapes
geometry · logarithms · infinitesimals · volumes · conic sections · optimization · honeycomb · lattice · mathematical proof · crystallography
Kepler'sCopernican
Sun-centered cosmological view
Ptolemaic · geocentric · Aristotelian · medieval cosmology · Newtonian
Kepler'sPtolemaic
Earth-centered astronomical system
geocentric · Aristotelian · earth-centered · medieval cosmology
Kepler'sNewtonian
Of classical mechanics
Cartesian · speculative · a priori · non-empirical · Einsteinian