• 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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    became one of Philoponus’ major preoccupations and dominated several of his publications (some now lost) over the following decade. Philoponus originated...
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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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    to explain projectile motion against gravity. It was introduced by John Philoponus in the 6th century, and elaborated by Nur ad-Din al-Bitruji at the...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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, and brought proofs that he agreed with Severus and Theodosius. They were banished to Palestine, and Philoponus wrote a book against John Scholasticus...
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  • but cannot penetrate a large piece. Sorabji, Richard (2010). "John Philoponus". Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science (2nd ed.). Institute...
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  • Press. pp. 65–66. ISBN 9781400858989. Sorabji, Richard (2010). "John Philoponus". Philoponus and the Rejection of Aristotelian Science (2nd ed.). Institute...
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    Middle Ages in the Middle East. About 550 AD, Christian philosopher John Philoponus wrote a treatise on the astrolabe in Greek, which is the earliest extant...
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    Press. ISBN 0226316351. Modern editions of John Philoponus' treatise on the astrolabe are Philoponus, John (1839) [c. 550]. Hase, Heinrich (ed.). De usu...
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    the Byzantine Empire and Abbasid Caliphate. In the Byzantine Empire, John Philoponus, an Alexandrian Aristotelian commentator and Christian theologian,...
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  • the matter was motion, not stasis (stagnation). In the 6th century, John Philoponus criticized the inconsistency between Aristotle's discussion of projectiles...
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    Archimedes' mathematical contributions were collected and studied. John Philoponus, another Byzantine scholar, was the first to question Aristotle's teaching...
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    found in the commentary of John Philoponus on Aristoteilan physics. In this he was possibly influenced by John Philoponus who was developing the Stoic...
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    Aristotle were Philoponus, Elias, and David in the sixth century, and Stephen of Alexandria in the early seventh century. John Philoponus stands out for...
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    philosopher John Philoponus was the first to question Aristotelian physics. Unlike Aristotle, who based his physics on verbal arguments, Philoponus relied...
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  • first formulated by a Greek-speaking Syriac Christian neo-Platonist, John Philoponus, who claims to find a contradiction between the Greek pagan insistence...
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  • Arians", Select Treatises, Newman, John Henry Cardinal trans, Longmans, Green, & Co, p. 124, footn. John Philoponus – Tritheism – Stanford Encyclopedia...
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    insights and speculation. The works of the early Byzantine scholar John Philoponus inspired Western scholars such as Jean Buridan to question the received...
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  • Constantinople. May 3 – Kʼan Joy Chitam I, ruler of Palenque (d. 565) John Philoponus, Aristotelian commentator and philosopher (d. 570) Romanos the Melodist...
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  • Johannes (2018). "Personhood in Miaphysitism: Severus of Antioch and John Philoponus". Personhood in the Byzantine Christian Tradition: Early, Medieval...
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    astronomy of Ptolemy lived in this era, such as Eutocius of Ascalon and John Philoponus. Several Greco-Roman astrological treatises are also known to have...
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  • 480–524). John Philoponus (c. 490–570). Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (c. 500). Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636). Christian philosopher. John of Damascus...
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