Analogy in Scientific Discovery: The Case of Johannes Kepler

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The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology (2013, background): “Studies in the history of science show that analogy was a means of discovery for scientists like Faraday (Tweney, 1991), Maxwell (Nersessian, 1984), and Kepler (Gentner, 2002), as well as among contemporary scientists (Dunbar, 1995).”
Nonintentional analogical inference in text comprehension (2007, background): “the important role that analogy continues to play in contemporary scientific discoveries (Dunbar, 1995, 1999; Gentner, 2002; Thagard, 1992).”
The development of relational category knowledge (2005, background): “Rather, the timing of the shift varies across domains and Gentner, 1999 ; Namy & Gentner, 2002) .”
What Teachers of Science Need to Know about Models: An overview (2011, methodology): “According to Gentner (2002), Kepler’s analogical reasoning consists of four subprocesses—highlighting common structure, projecting inferences, re-representing relations and noticing alignable differences—by which analogy produces new ideas.”
Improving tourism destination governance: a complexity science approach (2010, background): “different systems or between systems’ structures (Gentner, 2002; Krieger, 2005; Wigner, 1960).”