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Who discovered that planets make ellipses (ovals) as they orbit the Sun?

Galileo Galilei

Isaac Newton

William Harvey

Johannes Kepler

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Johannes Kepler.

He discovered (from Tycho Brahe’s observations) that planets travel in ellipses with the Sun at one focus — Kepler’s First Law of planetary motion.