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Which book contained Johannes Kepler's third law of planetary motion?
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler, engraving by N. Dietz.
Johannes Kepler announced his third law of planetary motion, also known as the harmonic law, in his 1619 book titled Harmonice Mundi (The Harmony of the World).1
This law establishes an exact mathematical relationship between the orbital periods of the planets and their mean distances from the Sun, specifically stating that the ratio of the cube of the semimajor axis () to the square of the orbital period () is the same for all planets.21