Re: Cantor Confusion

Therefore I fault him. Except for lenses Aristotle had every contrivence
and technology that was available to Galileo. Greek shipwrights could
have made straight smooth wooden ramps to be used as inclined planes.
The Greeks had Egyption drip clocks at their disposal. So it wasn't lack
of tools or technology that prevented Aristotle from checking. It was
attitude.

I see your point. I'm a big fan of Aristotle and the work he did, but
his physics does appear to lack the attention to detail that his other
works included. If he is deserving of the praise for his other works,
he likewise deserves the criticisms of his failures.

We would be a millenium ahead or extinct. Aristotle's followers cost us
over a thousand years of progress.

And the worst part to this was his "followers", for all those
centuries, not *one* amongst the untold millions even attempted to
coroborate his work on "Natural Philosophy" to see if it held true.
This is more than simply "being sheep". This is not caring enough to
even try. :-/

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