When we think of gravity, we tend to think of Isaac Newton. But even before Newton, people knew that things fell down towards the ground. But did they ever ask why? Well, yes they did! But to understand how they understood gravity, we have to understand how they understood the universe more broadly.

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Works cited and recommendations for further reading:
-M.R. Wright. Cosmology in Antiquity (London: Routledge, 1995).
-Thomas Aquinas. Commentary on Aristotle's Physics. Translated by Richard J. Blackwell, Richard J. Spath, and W. Edmund Thirlkel (London: Routledge, 1963).


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