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Aristotle on Flight: Air as an External Resting Point

Aristotle on Flight: Air as an External Resting Point AbstractI reconstruct Aristotle’s explanation for why and how birds are capable of natural flight. For Aristotle, air is a markedly different external resting point in comparison with water and earth, and nature has designed birds so as to take advantage of the unique way in which air affects the inequality between (a) the pushing downward, that is, the downward force and (b) the resistance. My discussion sheds some light on Aristotle’s anticipation of some aspects of modern fluid dynamics and aerodynamics. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Rhizomata de Gruyter

Aristotle on Flight: Air as an External Resting Point

Coren, Daniel
Rhizomata , Volume 9 (1): 16 – Sep 13, 2021
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de Gruyter
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© 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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2196-5110
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10.1515/rhiz-2021-0006
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Abstract

AbstractI reconstruct Aristotle’s explanation for why and how birds are capable of natural flight. For Aristotle, air is a markedly different external resting point in comparison with water and earth, and nature has designed birds so as to take advantage of the unique way in which air affects the inequality between (a) the pushing downward, that is, the downward force and (b) the resistance. My discussion sheds some light on Aristotle’s anticipation of some aspects of modern fluid dynamics and aerodynamics.

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Rhizomata – de Gruyter

Published: Sep 13, 2021

Keywords: Flight; resting point; Aristotle’s physics; Aristotle’s biology; birds; fish; air; water; resistant force; downward force

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