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Galileo studied bodies falling under gravity and Tycho Brahe made extensive astronomical observations which led Kepler to formulate his three famous laws of planetary motion. All these observations were of relative motion. This led Newton to propose his theory of gravity, which could just as well have been expressed in a form that does not involve the concept of force.
H.R. Harrison (Mon,) studied this question.