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Was there really a property proposed called levity? I thought that that was only mentioned in parodies of Newton. e.g. https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/3637
by emmelaich 6y ago
Was there really a property proposed called levity?
I thought that that was only mentioned in parodies of Newton.
e.g. https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/363707/view/caricature-of-newton-s-laws-of-gravity- https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/363707/view/caricature-of...
- stan_rogers 6y agoYes, and it goes back at least as far as Aristotle (although he would have used a rather Greeker word). Levity would have been a property of fire and air in Aristotelian physics, where gravity was a property of earth and water.