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Aristotle discovered gravitational potential theory.
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What was Aristotle's vital force?
An imaginary force that made things alive.
When was force discovered?
Issac Newton created force in motion
What did Sir Isaac Newton discover that also proved Aristotle to be wrong about?
Isaac Newton proved that when an apple falls from a tree this is not due to gravity but the phazons that our reflecting off of the outer shell of the apple. This is of course in contrary to Aristotles works.
Is it true that once an object is in its natural resting place it cannot move by itself?
This is one of the axioms of the Aristotle's physics, introduced by the great Greek philosopher in the IV century before Christ (about 2400 years ago). The role of this postulate was to justify the observed motion of bodies by defining their natural resting place starting from the metaphysical idea of the body nature. The most important consequence of this principle is that, while a body is in its resting place, an external force is needed to move it. Modern science, that was born with the work of Galileo, Newton and several other scientists in XV century after Christ (2000 years after Aristotle and about 400 years ago) completely cancelled metaphysical assumptions, starting from mathematics and pure phenomena observation. The fact that it was possible to observe a wider variety of phenomena with respect to the Aristotle's age allowed scientists, and in particular Isaac Newton, to understand that the force is not needed to move a body, but to accelerate it. The fact that in normal experience bodies subject to no apparent force tend to stop (to come to their natural rest situation following Aristotle) is due to the fact that an forces in fact exist, the air and attrition resistance, that decelerate the body up to its stop. No such resistance exists in space, where planets move, so that justification of the planet motion with the Aristotle's principle is not possible. As a matter of fact planets according to Aristotle, should decelerate up to a stop, while this does not happen. Thus we can say that nature phenomena are not correctly interpreted by the Aristotle's postulate and at present is has to be abandoned in favor of a scientific approach to nature analysis.
What did Aristotle contibute to science?
i dont like you
What year did Aristotle discover the atom?
Aristotle was born in 384 B.C and died in 322 B.C. Aristotle did not discover the atom. He made theories about the atom but did not have the tools to discover the atom.
What did Aristotle discover in biology?
kahit ano Aristotle is a philosopher not a scientist
Aristotle what did he discover about space?
Aristotle was a greek man who discovered things about space and nature
When did Aristotle discover the atom?
400 BC
When did Aristotle discover four elements?
350 b.C.
What did Aristotle believe and discover?
He believe that the Earth is in the middle.
When did Aristotle discover matter?
When he - stepped in it, - tripped on it, - fell on it, - or bathed within it.
What was Aristotle's vital force?
An imaginary force that made things alive.
What did Plato discover?
HE taught Aristotle and got hit in the head with and egg and died.
Who promoted reason as the guiding force for learning in greek?
Aristotle
Did Aristotle think that a force acts on the moon as revolves around the earth?
no!
When did Aristotle discover mathematical logic?
With the Prior Analytics, Aristotle is credited with the earliest study of formal logic, and his conception of it was the dominant form of Western logic until 19th century advances in mathematical logic.
