Re: Debate: Was Aristotle Correct: Re: A Falling Force

On May 26, 4:38 pm, Douglas Eagleson <eaglesondoug...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Here is a quote from a modern English text of The Heavens by
Aristotle:

pg443 of McKeon's edition

"For there will be a force which moves it, and the small and lighter
body is the further will a given force move it."

Taken as English predicate the force of gravity is the force
referred. What is commonly misunderstood, and repeated verbatum was
the force as abstract body force.

It is a variable in the usage, implying uncertainty of the constancy
between all matter. A force between all heavens was a VARIABLE
possibly, in Aristotle works.

All this from a translation from a language you don't speak, into
another language you can barely handle.



It is a failure to repeat the force as simple gravity. Do not
ever,ever, ever use the prose in Book III chapter 2 of The Heavens to
infer an English predicate law of falling bodies.

Galileo may have had a poor translation.

Or you could just be an idiot.

And mistook the size as a
problem. Making his trip to the tower of pizza a lark. Or he had a
different reference. I am still looking for the other possible forces
as the work.

Or? Or? Or?


Who knows of the translation used by Galileo? I need to know.

Then go to a library and find out, tool.

If he
use the pg 443 prose, he would have worried about variable forces
between bodies, not constant forces.

So you think galileo used the ENGLISH translation?

IMplying a very poor translation
or bad reading. Maybe he read Greek?

In the Renaissance, MANY people could read Greek. Greek was the
language of the pinnacle of Classical Learning. Even the New Testament
was written in Greek. The scholastic movement in monastaries routinely
studied and translated Aristotle.

Did he?

So your concept is that neither Galileo nor anyone else in the
Renaissance (nor the Arabs who kept classical learning alive) nor the
Jewish translators could actual understand Aristotle. What makes you
think that YOU understand him?

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