Aristotle's Theorization of Motion

There was an entire body of what you might call a sort of folk technical knowledge being passed along and developed by mostly illiterate commoners. Sometimes this sort of technical knowledge did feed into theorization by literate philosophers and churchmen. For example, jean buridon was a scholastic philosopher in france in the 13 hundreds,. He studied the motion of objects, sort of movement a flight, and he developed the idea of impetus. After 14 hundred, a new school of thought begins to emerge, which we now think of as renaissance humanism. It began among florentine scholars who saw western christendom in their own time as sort of superstitious, obscuratists