Ido Yavetz: 1 book
Bodies and Media
On the Motion of Inanimate Objects in Aristotle’s Physics and On the Heavens
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
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...
