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 laws fit the observations better than does the model proposed by Copernicus. Kepler's corrections are not at all obvious: The eccentricity of the orbit of the Earth makes the time from the March equinox to the September equinox, around 186 days, unequal to the time from the September equinox to the March equinox, around 179 days. A diameter would cut the orbit into equal parts, but the plane through the Sun parallel to the equator of the Earth cuts the orbit into two parts with areas in a 186 to 179 ratio, so the eccentricity of the orbit of the