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Full Idea
If you raise some earth and release it, it moves and won't stay put, and the more you raise it the faster it moves, so why does the whole earth not move?
Gist of Idea
If the more you raise some earth the faster it moves, why does the whole earth not move?
Source
Aristotle (On the Heavens [c.336 BCE], 294a12)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'On the Heavens I and II', ed/tr. Leggatt,Stuart [Aris and Phillips 1995], p.153