Though it explicitly extended the first two laws of planetary motion (applied to Mars in Astronomia nova) to all the planets as well as the Moon and the Medicean satellites of Jupiter, it did not explain how elliptical orbits could be derived from observational data.
虽然它明确的将行星运动的头两条定律（在《新天文学》中适用于火星）扩展到其它行星、月球及木星的美第奇卫星，但是它并没有解释椭圆轨道如何从观测资料中获取。