Mechanics (; ), also called Mechanical Problems or Questions of Mechanics, is a text traditionally attributed to Aristotle, but generally regarded as spurious (cf. Pseudo-Aristotle).It is marked by a double asterisk in the contents of Jonathan Barnes (ed.), The Complete Works of Aristotle (Princeton, 1984), indicating that "its spuriousness has never been seriously contested" (p. xiii). Thomas Winter has suggested that the author was Archytas,Thomas Nelson Winter, "The Mechanical Problems in the Corpus of Aristotle," DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2007. while Michael Coxhead says that it is only possible to conclude that the author was one of the Peripatetics.
During the Renaissance, an edition of this work was published by Francesco Maurolico. A Latin translation was made by Vettor Fausto, dedicated to Giovanni Badoer in 1517.
See also Aristotle's wheel paradox
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Pseudo-Aristotle, Mechanica - Greek text and English translation