What are the contribution of Aristotle in motion?

Answer 1

Aristotle's ideas were believed to be true from 500 BC to 1600 CE. That's about 1,100 years of false knowledge. What Aristotle taught, appeared to be correct because it seemed obvious, but not all things are obvious.

Aristotle's view on motion seems to make sense. Unfortunately, it isn't correct. But because his theories appeared to make sense, they became popular and well accepted for a very long time. The key ideas that Aristotle tried to teach were:

All motion on the Earth is linear .

All motion in the heavens (outer space) is curved .

The speed at which an object falls is directly related to the mass of an object .

Motion could be considered in two main factions: natural and violent.

Motion continues so long as there is only an applied motion to an object. Removing the motion stops the object.

It would take a man named Galileo to start the wheels of change in this field of knowledge called physics.

Galileo, unlike Aristotle, proved that motion to the Earth does not depend on the weight of an object. All objects fall to the ground at the same speed. So you see, the speed at which an object falls at has nothing to do with the mass of the object. All objects that are released from the same starting point reach the ground in the same time. Galileo proved Aristotle wrong. He proved the concept of what is called force and mass.