He argued brillantly against Aristotle’s world-picture and on several important matters in physics he took up positions which are commonly thought not to have been espoused until Galileo’s day. For example, Philoponus attacked Aristotle’s theory that the earth andthe heavens are separate realms which need radically different physical principles to explain them. Philoponus denied that… Weiterlesen John Philoponus (490-530) – Der letzte Naturwissenschaftler der Antike?