TychaBrahe
TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent.
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TychaBrahe t1_j29hevp wrote
Reply to comment by T1N7 in Before Newton, how did people explain falling apples? by maugustus
To expand on this, Aristotle believed that all matter was made up of a mix of four different elements: fire, air, water, and earth; in that order. Things wanted to return to their natural place.
The Sun was above the air of the sky because fire was naturally above air. If you created a fire here on Earth, one of the effects was that sparks would rise, and this was seen as the element fire naturally seeking its place above the air.
Rain was element water that got above element air, and wanted to be beneath it. That's why rain fell. Your average objects, like a rock or a piece of metal, would fall because they were made of element earth. Thus they were naturally attracted to earth, and if they find themselves unsupported in element air, they will naturally fall.