Aristotelianism, Newtonianism and the physics of the layman.

Written and visual surveys were administered in order to assess people's models of the phsyical world. A comparison was made between scientific theories and the layman's philosophy of nature on the one hand, and between people's conceptions and perceptions on the other hand. The findings suggest that there are discrepancies on both levels: people do not conceive the world as physicists do, and their conceptions are different from their perception.