Mechanics (Aristotle)

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Mechanics (or Mechanica or Mechanical Problems) is a text traditionally attributed to Aristotle, though his authorship of it is disputed. Thomas Winter has suggested that the author was Archytas.^[1]

During the Renaissance, an edition of this work was published by Francesco Maurolico.

[edit] See also

• Aristotle's wheel paradox

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Thomas Nelson Winter, "The Mechanical Problems in the Corpus of Aristotle," DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2007.

[edit] External links

• Pseudo-Aristotle, Mechanica - Greek text and English translation