History of Science: Antiquity to 1700

Medieval Physics and Earth Sciences (1x23)


Air date: Jan 01, 2003

This lecture looks at medieval developments in astronomy and the physics of motion. Examples show how medieval questions could have surprising results; how medieval natural philosophers used and disagreed with Aristotle; and how results of medieval speculation and calculation laid the foundations of the modern science of kinematics.

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