query: Who identified force in physics?
passage: Force
Sir Isaac Newton described the motion of all objects using the concepts of inertia and force, and in doing so he found they obey certain conservation laws. In 1687, Newton published his thesis Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.[3][10] In this work Newton set out three laws of motion that to this day are the way forces are described in physics.[10]
passage: Force
Aristotelian physics began facing criticism in medieval science, first by John Philoponus in the 6th century.