Sacred Texts: The Classics

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book IV: Chapter 2

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Those of our predecessors who have entered upon this inquiry have for the most part spoken of light and heavy things only in the sense in which one of two things both endowed with weight is said to be the lighter. And this treatment they consider a sufficient analysis also of the notions of absolute heaviness, to which their account does not apply. This, however, will become clearer as we advance.

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book IV: Chapter 2

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