 Motions are, in Aristotle’s physics, classified into natural and violent. A paradigmatic example of natural (local) motion is the motion of a freely falling body, whereas an example of violent (local) motion would be the motion of a thrown body. The motion of a falling body is natural because a heavy body has a natural tendency to move downwards, or, as the thirteenth-century philosopher Peter of Auvergne puts it, “being below is the principal end of a heavy body” (Trifolgi 2015, p. 93).