Article ID: CBB609816908

Pereira and Galileo: Acceleration in Free Fall and Impetus Theory (2014)

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Galileo learned Aristotle’s physics from his sixteenth-century professors at the University of Pisa and from the books of the Jesuits teaching at the Roman College. Among them Benito Pereira played a relatively considerable role. In his young age, Galileo thoroughly read Pereira’s "De communibus omnium rerum naturalium principiis et affectionibus" (1576) and reported some of its passages in his "Juvenilia." Once he had become professor of mathematics at Pisa, he detached himself from his Aristotelian background and in his "De motu antiquiora," considering Pereira’s book as his principal source, he destroyed the traditional explanation of acceleration in natural motion and the Aristotelian theory of projectile movement.

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Authors & Contributors
Settle, Thomas B.
Frank, Martin
Takahashi, Ken'ichi
Schemmel, Matthias
Roux, Sophie
Raylor, Timothy
Concepts
Physics
Motion (physical)
Mathematics
Mechanics
Cosmology
Aristotelianism
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
Italy
Europe
England
Pisa (Italy)
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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