Domingo de Soto

Domingo de Soto (1494 – 15 November 1560) was a Spanish Dominican priest and Scholastic theologian and naturalist born in Segovia (Spain), and died in Salamanca (Spain), at the age of 66. He is best known as one of the founders of international law and of the Spanish Thomistic philosophical and theological movement known as the School of Salamanca.

He is also known for his contributions to mechanical physics: His works on mechanics and gravity, which he presented in his book "''Physicorum Aristotelis quaestiones''", in 1551, served as the basis for Galileo's and Isaac Newton studies. Provided by Wikipedia