My formative experiences with projectile motion was throwing/kicking/hitting various balls as a kid, and those definitely go in parabolas. Most items that I notice myself dropping are objects at least as massive as a pen, and so it definitely matters that they continuously accelerate, even if it indeed looks as if they only do so briefly at the beginning.
Aristotle claiming that heavier objects fall faster,(especially with the observation that the relationship isn’t proportional, and more bonus points if other qualitative features were discovered) is fine. Failing to describe football is the real problem
Also, are you sure the Greeks didn’t have the math? They knew what parabolas were. Sure, they didn’t have calculus—but nor did Galileo!
I think the paper answers most of these questions and recommend you read it! It’s short and hard to summarize without losing what gives its arguments force
My formative experiences with projectile motion was throwing/kicking/hitting various balls as a kid, and those definitely go in parabolas. Most items that I notice myself dropping are objects at least as massive as a pen, and so it definitely matters that they continuously accelerate, even if it indeed looks as if they only do so briefly at the beginning.
Aristotle claiming that heavier objects fall faster,(especially with the observation that the relationship isn’t proportional, and more bonus points if other qualitative features were discovered) is fine. Failing to describe football is the real problem
Also, are you sure the Greeks didn’t have the math? They knew what parabolas were. Sure, they didn’t have calculus—but nor did Galileo!
I think the paper answers most of these questions and recommend you read it! It’s short and hard to summarize without losing what gives its arguments force