Thanks so much for this hook! Because it took me so long to figure out (assuming I've actually figured it out, of course) who you were talking about, I now know a lot more about "impetus": https://link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/978-94-024-1665-7_239
On 6/9/25 1:50 PM, Santafe wrote:
We have this in Newton, where momentum is a product of a velocity with a mass (mv), a notion of “quantity of motion” that goes back, I think, to John of Alexander correcting some obvious howlers in Aristotle’s mechanics.
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