From a Wall Street Journal book review by Meghan Cox Gurdon headlined “Life as It Is, Blinkers Removed”:

As a young man, Christian Madsbjerg was poking around a library and came across a passage by Aristotle that struck him as ridiculous. In “Physics,” Aristotle explained that objects drop earthward because they want to return to the place where they belong. As Mr. Madsbjerg re-read the lines, he felt his derision give way to dizziness.