Kepler went on to show that an elliptical orbit is sufficient to explain the movement of the other planets and to devise the laws of planetary motion that Newton built on.
接着开普勒证明了这个椭圆轨道也能很有效解释其他行星的运行轨迹。然后他提出了行星运动定律，牛顿定律就是以此为理论基础的。
So, what happened back then was Kepler was trying to observe the motion of planets in the sky, and trying to come up with general explanations of how they move.
在那时候，开普勒尝试观察天上行星的移动，并尝试提出它运动的理论。
On August 6th America’s space agency, NASA, announced that its Kepler planet-detector (named after the man who worked out the laws of planetary motion, as this article explains) is also behaving well.
8月6日，美国航天局和美国宇航局（NASA），宣称其开普勒号行星探测仪（根据发现了行星移动定律的开普勒命名，点此可见详细介绍）现在运行得十分良好。
He comes into my little story here because it was he, in explaining not how planetary motion worked but how light bent through lenses, it was Kepler who coined the term focus.
我在故事中谈到开普勒，不是因为他解释了星球运行规律，而是因为他解释了光如何在透镜中发生折射。正是他首创了focus(焦点)这个词。
The mathematical explanations about planets′ motion given by Newton and Kepler are two of the most important achievements in science history.
牛顿和开普勒关于行星运动的数学解释是科学史上极其重要的两大成就。
The mathematical explanations about planets′ motion given by Newton and Kepler are two of the most important achievements in science history.
牛顿和开普勒关于行星运动的数学解释是科学史上极其重要的两大成就。
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