Aristotle’s description of motion

• Motion belongs in the heavens

  • Stars keep circling in assigned routes.

• “Stasis” belongs on Earth

  • Things on Earth come to rest.
  • Motion is an imperfection, or a path to removing an imperfect placement.

• Aristotle’s views held sway for more than 1000 years

  • Until the Renaissance & Galileo

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