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Johannes (Kepler) didn't work with gravity at all. He worked with the observations

recorded in his mentor's (Tycho's) notebooks during his lifetime, and figured out the

simplest arrangement of planets that could explain what we actually see them do in

the sky.

His 'model' was: Each planet moves in an elliptical path with the sun at one focus of

the ellipse, and the farther a planet is from the sun, the slower it moves.

Gravity never entered into the picture until Newton ... born 12 years after Kepler died ...

proposed a formula for how gravity works, and showed that if his formula for gravity is

correct, then the planets must move in the way that Kepler suggested.

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