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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the German astronomer who proved that the planets move in oval paths called ellipses, not in circles?
A
Andreas Vesalius
B
Isaac Newton
C
Johannes Kepler
D
Galileo
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician and astronomer who discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits. He gave three fundamental laws of planetary motion. He also did important work in optics and geometry.

Detailed explanation-2: -Knowing then that the orbits of the planets are elliptical, johannes Kepler formulated three laws of planetary motion, which accurately described the motion of comets as well. Kepler’s First Law: each planet’s orbit about the Sun is an ellipse.

Detailed explanation-3: -They were derived by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, whose analysis of the observations of the 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe enabled him to announce his first two laws in the year 1609 and a third law nearly a decade later, in 1618.

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