tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post4255841453434469880..comments2024-03-23T07:33:30.972+00:00Comments on Quodlibeta: Angels, Unmoved Movers and ImpetusJameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01594220073836613367noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-23588111943991708742009-12-08T13:32:28.785+00:002009-12-08T13:32:28.785+00:00Round them off!
Or flatten them.Round them off! <br /><br />Or flatten them.Bjørn Arehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01491085976273836365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-57382758998840974782009-12-07T15:46:01.431+00:002009-12-07T15:46:01.431+00:00Interesting as usual Humphrey. Unfortunately, I do...Interesting as usual Humphrey. Unfortunately, I doubt the people who need to read it the most, the ones who still say the Medieval church and thinkers believed the world was flat or the universe was small, will do so. Try explaining to them how Ptolemy's <i>Almagest</i> was the definitive model before Copernicus and it explicitly states that the Earth is merely a point compared to the sphere of the fixed stars or when Ptolemy's <i>Geographia</i> resurfaced almost a hundred years before Columbus's voyage that its description of a spherical earth and map projections aroused no opposition among the nobility or the church you get some variation of 'what the hell are you talking about? Everybody knows the ancients believed the Earth was flat.' I don't know what to do about them.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18319161892002614759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-67427728797022904162009-12-07T15:02:24.357+00:002009-12-07T15:02:24.357+00:00Oh dear. That miniaturised link was supposed to go...Oh dear. That miniaturised link was supposed to go to part of 'Foundations of Science in the Middle Ages', instead it goes to a performance of 'Them Crooked Vultures' on the Friday night Jonathan Ross show.Humphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936974517695558399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-11265516579429896392009-12-07T14:59:42.259+00:002009-12-07T14:59:42.259+00:00Got some notes from Lawrence Principe's lectur...Got some notes from Lawrence Principe's lectures for the Faraday Institute as a starting point. Then various authorities on google books. Grant's Foundations of Science in the Middle Ages for Aristotle and the unmoved movers. E.G<br /><br />http://tiny.cc/FERpC<br /><br />Randomly found some very useful notes here:<br /><br />http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/astrocourses/ast203/impetus_theory.htmlHumphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936974517695558399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5074683.post-92091451769720567092009-12-07T14:28:33.376+00:002009-12-07T14:28:33.376+00:00From where do you sap this information, Humphrey? ...From where do you sap this information, Humphrey? You're a human library!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com