how did keplers law help newton to arrive at the inverse square law of gravity?
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In a sense, Kepler's laws gave Newton a goal to reach: whatever law he proposed for gravity, it had to be such as to yield Kepler's laws as a consequence. ... Newton was able to show that the form he arrived at, the inverse square dependence, was just what was needed to get Kepler's laws.
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