Daily Medieval

After the previous post on impetus, I wanted to introduce you to Albert of Saxony, who took Avicenna's idea a step further. Albert ...

1582 woodcut demonstrating impetus with artillery Impetus is the force or energy with which a body started to move. The term itself ent...

The men before Galileo In the first half of the 1300s, a handful of scholars at Oxford University, most of whom were at Merton College, a...