Astronomer Johannes Kepler from Weil der Stadt was one of the pioneering minds of empirical and rational research. Through rigorous application of the principles of the Scientific method he construed his laws of planetary motion. His ideas influenced contemporary Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and provided fundamental mechanical principles for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.Stillman Drake, "Copernicanism in Bruno, Kepler, and Galileo." Vistas in Astronomy 17 (1975): 177–192 online .
Astronomer Johannes Kepler from Weil der Stadt was one of the pioneering minds of empirical and rational research. Through rigorous application of the principles of the Scientific method he construed his laws of planetary motion. His ideas influenced contemporary Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and provided fundamental mechanical principles for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.Stillman Drake, "Copernicanism in Bruno, Kepler, and Galileo." Vistas in Astronomy 17 (1975): 177–192 online .