{"id":47429,"date":"2019-02-09T10:36:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T09:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/knowledge-of-ancients-had-to-be-enormous\/"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T10:08:45","slug":"knowledge-of-ancients-had-to-be-enormous","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/knowledge-of-ancients-had-to-be-enormous\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge of ancients had to be enormous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The knowledge of the ancients had to be enormous. How close to many discoveries were the ancients, we see on the basis of the knowledge of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/cicero\/\">Cicero<\/a>, which refers in this case to Aristotle. <b><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/cicero\/\">Cicero<\/a> and theory of relativity<\/b>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\">\n<p class=\"quote\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aristotle is also to be commended for his view that the motion of all living bodies is due to one of three causes, nature, force, or will; now the sun and moon and all the stars are in motion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cicero and the force of gravity:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"center\">\n<p class=\"quote\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bodies moved by nature travel either downwards owing to their weight or upwards owing to their lightness; but neither (he argued) is the case with the heavenly bodies, because their motion is revolution in a circle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40318,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-47429","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/47429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/47429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=47429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}