Do tempo como medida do movimento ao tempo absoluto
De Aristóteles a Newton
Abstract
The article traces the conceptual trajectory that leads from the Aristotelian definition of time as the measure of motion to the modern formulation of absolute time. It examines how the Aristotelian notion of time – defined as the number or measure of the motion of celestial bodies – shaped the early development of astronomy. With the advancement of Copernican astronomy from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries onward, this connection began to unravel: time ceased to be understood through motion and came to be conceived primarily as duration and succession. This process culminated in the Newtonian notion of absolute time, independent of external motion, which flows uniformly without reference to any body or external change.
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