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...