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
Speed of gravity to explain the perihelion advance of Mercury, but they could not provide exact values. One exception was Maurice Lévy in 1890, who succeeded in doing so by combining the laws of Weber and Riemann, whereby the speed of gravity is equal to the speed of light. So those hypotheses were rejected. However, a more important variation of those attempts was the theory of Paul Gerber, who derived in 1898 the identical formula, which was also derived later by Einstein for the perihelion advance. Based on that formula, Gerber calculated a propagation speed for gravity of 305 000 km/s, i.e. practically