Kepler was a mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. He did no work with the periodic tabel, which hadn't been discerned yet, at any rate - that was Mendeleev, some centuries later.
Mendeleev left blank spaces because certain elements on the Periodic Table were not known at that time. He knew that in the future, those elements would be found and placed on the periodic table.
Mendeleev left spaces for undiscovered elements. He named them eka-aluminium, eka-silicon etc.
Mendeleev explained the blank spaces in his periodic table by predicting the existence and properties of elements that had not yet been discovered. He organized the known elements based on their atomic weight and properties, which allowed him to accurately predict the properties of missing elements. These predictions helped guide the discovery of new elements that filled in the empty spaces in the table.
It was recognized by the inventor of the Periodic table that these empty spaces are for elements/isotopes that would be discovered someday. Dmitri Mendeleev is generally credited with the publication, in 1869, of the first widely recognized periodic table. He developed his table to illustrate periodic trends in the properties of the then-known elements. Mendeleev also predicted some properties of then-unknown elements that would be expected to fill gaps in this table.
Dmitri Mendeleev is most known for creating the periodic table of elements, which he organized based on atomic weight and properties, and predicted the properties of undiscovered elements. His work laid the foundation for modern chemistry and our understanding of the elements.
When making his periodic table Mendeleev noticed some spaces where elements should be couldn't be filled. He didn't want to force elements that didn't belong there to go there, so he believed the spaces were undiscovered elements. He left the names blank but predicted their properties. Later the elements Mendeleev predicted existed were discovered.
Dmitri Mendeleev arranged elements on his first periodic table by increasing atomic mass and grouping elements with similar properties together. He left gaps for missing elements and predicted the properties of these undiscovered elements based on their position in the table.
He made the first ever periodic table, that was the revolutionary thing Mendeleev made.-----01/6/2012Mendeleev's discovery about elements were so revolutionary because he left gaps for undiscovered elements. He predicted the elements properties to get the empty spaces that would later be proven true (the prediction of the other undiscovered elements) in 1875 by a scientist.
The periodic law came first. Mendeleev enunciated this law as "when the elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic weight, there is a periodic repetition of their chemical properties". He proceeded to construct a table based around this law. In constructing the periodic table Mendeleev used remarkable chemical insight, changing the atomic weights of several elements, atomic weight and valence of a few, and leaving a few spaces where there seemed to be room for an undiscovered element in the table -- he was able to predict the chemical properties of these then undiscovered elements with amazing accuracy.
There were 3 blank spaces in mendeleev's Periodic Table. He left it for the elements which were not discovered at that time.
Mendeleev's periodic table was similar to the modern periodic table in that both are organized by increasing atomic number and have elements grouped according to similar chemical properties. Additionally, both tables have blank spaces where undiscovered elements were predicted to exist.
Mendeleev thought about the future and realized that it was entirely unlikely that all earthly elements had been discovered, so he left blank spaces in his table and even predicted some of the elements that would fit in those spaces. Surprisingly enough, as time passed, chemists began discovering many of the elements that he had predicted, which fit perfectly into his periodic table.