Russell has stated that the first part of Aristotle’s work has been refuted by
Newton’s First Law of Motion. Outside causes are required, not to account for
motion, bu to account for change of motion, either in velocity or in direction.
And circular motion involves a continual change in the direction of motion, and
therefore requires a force directed towards the center of the circle, as in Newton’s
law of gravitation.
His second part has also been refuted by astronomy observations and theories.
All the stars, including the Sun and the Moon, were born from nebulas, and will explode, or die of cold, which is neither ungenerated nor indestructible.
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