VIEWS OF MOTION

ARISTOTLE

• Aristotle was alive during the 8th century
• He was born in 384 B.C., in the town of Stagira, Greece
• At 17, Aristotle had entered Plato's Academy
• Then in 338 B.C. he tutored Alexander the Great
• In 335 B.C. Aristotle founded the Lyceum, a school in Greece . Aristotle died in 322 B.C.

ARISTOTLE'S VEIWS OF MOTION

• Nothing moves unless you push it.
• There is natural, violent, and local motion
• Speed is proportional to motive force, and inversely proportional to resistance
• There cannot be a vacuum
• The most Natural state:Rest

WEBSITES

• http://www.biography.com/people/aristotle-9188415#synopsis
• http://web.williams.edu/HistSci/curriculum/224/aristotle.html

COPERNICUS

• He lived during the 15th-century
• born on February 19, 1473 in Torun, Poland
• In 1514, he wrote Commentariolus, a book
• Died on May 24, 1543
• He was a Mathematician, Astronomer, and Scientist

COPERNICUS'S VIEWS OF MOTION

• The earth is not the center of the universe
• But the sun is the center with planets circling it

WEBSITES

• http://www.biography.com/people/nicolaus-copernicus-9256984
• http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/copernicus-born
• http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/copernican.html

GALILEO

• Galileo was alive during the 16th century
• Born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy
• Galileo was accused twice of heresy by the church for his beliefs
• supported the Copernican theory
• He died in Arcetri, Italy, on January 8, 1642

GALILEO VIEWS OF MOTION

• proposed that objects in free fall dropped with a uniform speed
• Objects are dependent on their specific gravity rather than their wieght

WEBSITES

• http://www.biography.com/people/galileo-9305220#synopsis
• http://www.ehow.com/facts_7363208_galileo_s-views-force-motion.html

MY VIEW ON MOTION

• That the earth is revealing the sun
• And around the sun planets orbit
• I say this because the earth is always is in motion