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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)