Chapter 10 Harvey, Aristotle and Mediaeval Revisionism (Impetus Theory) � Antiperistasis and Its Limitations � The Contraries

2015 ◽  
pp. 74-112
Keyword(s):  
Impetus Theory

Stillman Drake's "Impetus Theory Reappraised"

1977 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Impetus Theory

Impetus Theory Reappraised

1975 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stillman Drake
Keyword(s):  
Impetus Theory

The biological precedents for medieval impetus theory and its Aristotelian character

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHANNES FRITSCHE
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Reproduction ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Family Resemblance ◽  
The State ◽  
Impetus Theory ◽  
Latin West

AbstractWhile the impetus theory is often regarded as a non-Aristotelian theory that could not have emerged within the development of Aristotelianism, I argue that it is essentially Aristotelian. Given the state of the theories of body, movement and sexual reproduction and the development of the theory of the four elements in the Latin West at the end of the thirteenth century, the impetus theory was probably developed as an application to projectiles of Aristotle's theories of the male semen and of family resemblance. In addition, the impetus theory was even a convenient expedient to simplify the Aristotelian theory of movement and prevent it from drifting into non-Aristotelian territory.

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