Kepler's laws of planetary motion of solar system body number "i" is, according to Newton's laws: where formula_72 is the mass of body "j", formula_73 is the distance between body "i" and body "j", formula_74 is the unit vector from body "i" towards body "j", and the vector summation is over all bodies in the world, besides "i" itself. In the special case where there are only two bodies in the world, Earth and Sun, the acceleration becomes which is the acceleration of the Kepler motion. So this Earth moves around the Sun according to Kepler's laws. If the two bodies in the world are
Kepler's laws of planetary motion law" is what became the Second Law in the set of three; but Kepler did himself not privilege it in that way. Johannes Kepler published his first two laws about planetary motion in 1609, having found them by analyzing the astronomical observations of Tycho Brahe. Kepler's third law was published in 1619. Kepler had believed in the Copernican model of the solar system, which called for circular orbits, but he could not reconcile Brahe's highly precise observations with a circular fit to Mars' orbit—Mars coincidentally having the highest eccentricity of all planets except Mercury. His first law reflected this discovery.