This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion.
The first problem leads to the.
It shows how the idea of Motion raised two fundamental problems in the 5th and 4th century BCE: bringing together being and non-being, and bringing together time and space.
It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain control over conceptual problems of motion.
This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion