Avempace, Projectile Motion, and Impetus Theory

@article{Franco2003AvempacePM,
  title={Avempace, Projectile Motion, and Impetus Theory},
  author={Abel B. Franco},
  journal={Journal of the History of Ideas},
  year={2003},
  volume={64},
  pages={521 - 546}
}
  • Abel B. Franco
  • Published 1 October 2003
  • Philosophy
  • Journal of the History of Ideas
This paper provides a historical reevaluation of the originality and implications of Avempace's critique of Aristotle's causal explanation of the motion of projectiles. It also offers a serious revision of the place which has usually been assigned to Avempace in the history of science. The views regarding projectiles defended in Avempace's Arabic commentary are in sharp opposition to the anti-Aristotelian Avempace that was known in the Medieval West through Averroes. Avempace's commentary… 
View via Publisher
25 Citations
Highly Influential Citations
2
Background Citations
4
Results Citations
2

25 Citations

Jesuit Conceptions of Impetus After Galileo: Honoré Fabri, Paolo Casati, and Francesco Eschinardi
The fourteenth-century concept of impetus denotes an impressed force and was used to explain the continuation of the motion of projectiles and the acceleration of falling bodies. This chapter deals…
Aristotle, projectiles and guns
When guns were developed in Europe in the 14th century, the theory of projectile motion was not the one we are familiar with today due to Galileo and Newton but the one taught by Aristotle…
Form and matter
The first unquestionably big idea in the history of philosophy was the idea of form. The idea of course belonged to Plato, and was then domesticated at the hands of Aristotle, who paired form with…
Unnatural acts: The transition from Natural Principles to Laws of Nature in Early Modern science.
  • O. Belkind
  • Philosophy
    Studies in history and philosophy of science
  • 2020
Mass, Speed, Direction: John Buridan's 14th-Century Concept of Momentum
“Modern science began in the Middle Ages,” a fact that has been forgotten thanks to the celebrated accomplishments of Copernicus and Galileo, who did not acknowledge their predecessors. So states…
ERDAT CATALOGLU and SALIH ATES THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE STYLES ON NAÏVE IMPETUS THEORY APPLICATION DEGREES OF PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS
  • Education
  • 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between pre-service science teachers’ Field Dependent or Field Independent (FD/FI) cognitive styles and the application of…
Religious authority and the state
Religious authority and the state were conceived very differently in the Byzantine world, the Muslim world, and Latin Europe. This last was the only civilization in which the age-old and nearly…
Using History to Teach Mechanics
History of mechanics can contribute to the teaching of mechanics in two major ways. It can help students to learn about the nature of science and it can provide illustrations, stories and experiments…
THE EFFECTS OF COGNITIVE STYLES ON NAÏVE IMPETUS THEORY APPLICATION DEGREES OF PRE-SERVICE SCIENCE TEACHERS
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between pre-service science teachers’ Field Dependent or Field Independent (FD/FI) cognitive styles and the application of…
Bibliography of secondary sources
Compound Histories: Materials, Governance and Production, 1760-1840 explores the intertwined realms of production, governance and materials, placing chemists and chemistry at the center of processes…
...
...

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 23 REFERENCES
Omne quod movetur necesse est ab aliquo moveri: A Refutation of Galen by Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Theory of Motion
By S. Pines* IN 1952 Professor Franz Rosenthal discovered in the course of a sojourn in Istanbul that the MS. 127-9 of the Carullah Collection in the Millet Library was a collection of philosophical…
The Physical World of Late Antiquity
Sambursky describes the development of scientific conceptions and theories in the centuries following Aristotle until the close of antiquity in the sixth century A.D.Originally published in 1987.The…
The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
In his monumental 1687 work "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", known familiarly as the "Principia", Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion…
Aristotle's Physics and its Reception in the Arabic World: With an Edition of the Unpublished Parts of Ibn Bājja's Commentary on the Physics
Aristotle's Physics and Its Reception in the Arabic World presents a survey of what Arabic philosophers, as commentators of Aristotle's Physics, have contributed to philosophy and science in the…
Etudes sur Léonard de Vinci, ceux qu'il a lus et ceux qui l'ont lu
THIS volume contains four essays, on Leonardo da Vinci's views on the infinitely great and the infinitely small, on his ideas on the plurality of worlds, on his dependence on the philosophy of…
The Encyclopaedia of Islam
The Encyclopedia of Islam (EI) is generally acclaimed as a major scholarly enterprises of this century. This encyclopedia on CD-Rom (EI CD-ROM) contains the following: index of proper names, index of…
New System of the Nature of Substances and their Communication
Les précurseurs musulmans de la théorie de l’impetus
The refutation by Alexander of Aphrodisias of Galen's treatise on the theory of motion
Mélanges de philosophie juive et arabe
...
...