"Galileo Galilei is often called "the first scientist"," (Galileo Galilei: Super Scientist in History http://www.llnl.gov/llnl06news/Community/super_science_newsletter/) for all the work he did and because, he was on the front line of new and advanced technology paving the way for others to come. Galileo was also dubbed ""the father of modern physics -- indeed of modern science altogether."" (His Place in Science, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/science.html) for his outstanding work on physics and his many other discoveries. ...

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., the solar mass), then Kepler's law takes the extremely simple form (http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/KeplersThirdLaw.html) (http://javalab.uoregon.edu/dcaley/kepler/Kepler.html) Another influenceal person in Astronomy was Isaac Newton. ... (http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton3laws.html) Both Newton and Kepler were geniuses of their time and its possible that if they hadn't come to the conclusions that they did, we might not know what we do today about Astronomy. ...

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