The Theory of impetus was an auxiliary or secondary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced to explain projectile motion against gravity, first by Hipparchus in antiquity and subsequently by Philoponus, and was the ancestor of the concept of momentum in classical mechanics.
The Theory of impetus was an auxiliary or secondary theory of Aristotelian dynamics introduced to explain projectile motion against gravity by Hipparchus in antiquity and subsequently by Philoponus, and was the ancestor of the concept of momentum in classical mechanics. This was first.