A review by teresavh
Physics by Aristotle

3.0

It's a really interesting but sometimes confusing book.
Imagine you travel to another dimension and then someone gives you a book that tells you how everything works. It was something like that. All Aristotle's postulates make sense in a way but you know that isn't so but it makes sense. To understand it you have to forget everything you know about movement and the elements and time and gravity. Remember, there wasn't the concept of gravity back then. It's also very interesting to see the weight geometry had on science, almost or all the physics concepts Aristotle worked on were based on geometry. Also you can see how close was he to understanding Newton's laws of physics, but because he didn't have all the bases he couldn't get there. For me it was very confusing his dissertation on becoming (I should've read it in my native language, Spanish, for a better translation) and the moving and locomotion thing got me kinda dizzy because he repeated a lot.
It was a good book, but I wouldn't recommend it (not that the author cares)