Jean Buridan publishes on impetus
1336
The rector of the University of Paris proposed that a projectile moves not because air pushes it but because an 'impetus' impressed by the thrower is gradually consumed by resistance and gravity. It was the clearest challenge yet to Aristotelian physics and would feed through Galileo into classical mechanics and Newton's first law of motion.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.