world as an effect of phonetic literacy. Thus: “It will be evident 
from the material I have presented in the first two chapters 
that medieval statics, like the other aspects of medieval 
mechanics, depends greatly on the mechanical concepts and 
their analysis given by Greek mechanicians: the Aristotelian 
author of the Mechanica , Archimedes, Hero, and others.” (p. 
xxiii)

     In the same way “the achievements of medieval 
kinematics were very much more an integral part of the 
scholastic discussions of Aristotelian statements regarding 
force and motion . . . Particularly important was the 
development of a concept of instantaneous velocity and 
consequently of an analysis of various kinds of acceleration.” 
(p. xxv)