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Most modern scholars see Simplicius’s account as the earliest documentation of the theory of in-body impetus, which, in the Middle Ages gained ascendency over Aristotle’s medium dynamics of motion.
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Wolff 1987, esp.100–104.
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Medium resistance could be considered as a growing function of speed that needs to be subtracted from the effective force. This assumption eliminates Aristotle’s objection that in a vacuum, the smallest driving force would move the largest body at an infinite speed.
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Galilei 1960, pp. 78–79.
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Yavetz, I. (2015). Hipparchus on the Theory of Prolonged Motion. In: Bodies and Media. SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21263-0_5
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