Jean Buridan
Medieval philosopher (ca. 1300-1358)
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FranceA medieval philosopher whose theory of impetus—momentum before Newton—planted the seed that would grow into Copernicus overturning the cosmos, yet pop culture remembers him for a donkey paradox he never actually wrote.
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Jean Buridan spent his entire career in the faculty of arts at the University of Paris, teaching logic and working through Aristotle with the rigor of a 14th-century scholastic. Somewhere in that sustained focus he developed the concept of impetus, a way of explaining motion that broke from ancient doctrine and edged toward what would later be called inertia. It was an early crack in the edifice, part of what made the Copernican Revolution possible centuries later. He died around 1359 or 1362, his actual writings preserved but his name now attached most often to a thought experiment about a st…
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