Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Physics
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Physics.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's argument from motion (the First Way) is explicitly grounded in Aristotle's Physics Book VIII account of an unmoved mover, read via Moerbeke's translation.