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Isaac newton showed that an elliptical orbit like the one described in Kepler's laws is produced when the gravitational force is an inverse-square law, in other words if the distance doubles, the force goes to a quarter. He did this by producing the law of gravity, the laws of motion, and the differential calculus, and these are covered in school-level mathematics.

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