Yes, 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 Ari

Yes, 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.