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Johannes Kepler is best known for his work on planetary motion.
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Answer: True.

Kepler was an astronomer, astrologer and mathematician. He was an apprentice of Tycho Brahe, other big (maybe the biggest) astronomer of their time.

Kepler is best known for his 3 laws of planetary motion.

1) the orbit of a planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci

2) A line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time

3) The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.

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