Bodies and Media On the Motion of Inanimate Objects in Aristotle’s Physics and On the Heavens /

• Main Author: Yavetz, Ido (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology,
• Subjects: History.; Physics.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book presents a recasting of Aristotle’s theory of spatial displacement of inanimate objects. Aristotle’s claim that projectiles are actively carried by the media through which they move (such as air or water) is well known and has drawn the attention of commentators from ancient to modern time...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• General Plan of the Essay
• Chapter 1: The Three Levels of Aristotle’s Theory of Material Bodies in Forced Motion
• Chapter 2: Heaviness, Lightness, Sinking and Floating
• Chapter 3: Some Refinements of the Basic Theory
• Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Balance: The Winch and the Lever in the Pseudo Aristotelian Mechanical Problems
• Chapter 5: Hipparchus on the theory of Prolonged Motion.- Appendix 1: Do Heavy Objects become Heavier as they Approach their Natural Place?
• Appendix 2: A Threshold of Motion in Time, as well as in Force?
• Appendix 3: A Mathematical Formulation of Aristotle’s Theory of Forced Horizontal Motion
• Appendix 4: A Mathematical Formulation of Aristotle’s Theory of Natural and Forced Vertical Motion
• Appendix 5: A Mathematical Formulation of Hipparchus’s Theory of Vertical Motion
• Appendix 6: Alternative Translations of the Quotations Used in the Main Text. .