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Law of uniform acceleration in free fall — Domingo de Soto

1551 AD · Transmission: Silenced
PhysicsNatural lawHispanic

Domingo de Soto applies, in his Physicorum Aristotelis quaestiones (1551), the concept of latitudo velocitatis to the motion of free fall and states that a falling body experiences uniform acceleration. First surviving text to apply this concept explicitly to falling bodies, preceding Galileo by more than 50 years.

InstitutionUniversity of Salamanca
Historical regionCrown of Castile
Primary sourceDomingo de Soto — Physicorum Aristotelis quaestiones (Salamanca, 1551), Book II, Quaestio III
Secondary sourceWallace, W.A. — "The Enigma of Domingo de Soto" (Isis, 1968); Wallace, W.A. — Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo (2004, Ashgate)
Original languageLatin
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