What did Newton add to our understanding of Kepler's laws?

Answer 1

Newton's work on gravity introduced the mechanic for the motion of the planets.

Kepler believed that some force from the sun pushed the planets around in their orbits, but he was unable to identify the force. Kepler derived his laws of planetary motion from the massive amounts of data collected by Tycho Brahe. Brahe's observations were accurate enough that he was able to derive not only the shape of the planets' orbits, but their speeds as well.

Newton's law of universal gravitation, when applied to the planets and the Sun, accurately predicts the motion of the planets. Almost a century later, Newton's work on gravity explained why the planets orbit the way they do.

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Answer 2

Leo Abeyta

Newton added the concept of universal gravitation, which explained why Kepler's laws worked the way they did.

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