Strato of Lampsacus defied assumptions by testing air pressure and motion, nearly 2,000 years before Galileo revolutionized ...

Ever since Galileo attacked Aristotle's view of the world, the Greek philosopher's ideas have been regarded as a barrier to scientific progress. Michael Rowan-Robinson disagrees. In the spring of 1998 ...

Here’s a simple problem, illustrated simply, that will have you cocking your head and wondering how it’s done. You won’t be the first. Aristotle (reputedly) first took a whack at this, and Galileo ...

I AM unable to find the passage in his works, but I think it was Prof. Ostwald who pointed out that while Aristotle was much more impressed with the retarding effect on the velocity of the mass of the ...