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Denziloe t1_j29kihg wrote on December 30, 2022 at 5:12 PM

Reply to comment by Verlepte in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus

To elaborate. Aristotle believed that the earth element strove to be at the centre of the universe, water strove to be above earth, air above water, and fire above air. There was no concept of a force pulling everything together as in Newtonian physics.