Abstract:Abstract Descartes’s most important contribution to physics is commonly thought to be his reconceptualization of motion. His Aristotelian predecessors viewed motion as a change or process, but Descart...Abstract Descartes’s most important contribution to physics is commonly thought to be his reconceptualization of motion. His Aristotelian predecessors viewed motion as a change or process, but Descartes held that motion is a state. This reconceptualization of motion is considered signiHcant because it paved the way for both Descartes’s and Newton’s laws of inertia. While a change requires a force or cause, a state does not.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-04-17
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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