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Single Idea 399

[from 'On the Heavens' by Aristotle, in 27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement ]

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 Reference

Aristotle: 'On the Heavens I and II', ed/tr. Leggatt,Stuart [Aris and Phillips 1995], p.153