• John Philoponus' refutation of the Aristotelian claim that the elapsed time for a falling body is inversely proportional to its weight Philoponus is...
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    weights fall at the same speed are documented in sixth-century works by John Philoponus, which Galileo was aware of. In the 14th century, Nicole Oresme had...
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    components, p = ħk, describes a de Broglie matter wave. In about 530 AD, John Philoponus developed a concept of momentum in On Physics, a commentary to Aristotle's...
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    specific gravity. In the 6th century AD, Byzantine Alexandrian scholar John Philoponus modified the Aristotelian concept of gravity with the theory of impetus...
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  • numerous Neoplatonists, including Damascius, Olympiodorus of Thebes, John Philoponus, Simplicius of Cilicia, and Asclepius of Tralles. Also among his pupils...
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    6th-century Byzantine Greek philosopher and Aristotelian commentator John Philoponus argued that the Aristotelian assertion that objects fall proportionately...
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  • 134–154. JSTOR 44172367. Sorabji, Richard (2010). "John Philoponus". In Sorabji, Richard (ed.). Philoponus And The Rejection Of Aristotelian Science: Second...
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    Philoponus appeared; unlike Aristotle, who based his physics on verbal argument, Philoponus relied on observation. On Aristotle's physics Philoponus wrote:...
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    500 years after the Arab conquest of Alexandria. John the Grammarian appears to be John Philoponus, who must have been dead by the time of the conquest...
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    education in Late antiquity, with philosophers such as Iamblichus and John Philoponus writing commentaries on it. A Latin paraphrase by Boethius of Nicomachus's...
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