They knew of gravity as a force that stuck them to the earth, they just didn’t realize it was also the thing that explained the motions of everything they saw in the sky
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that seems reasonable
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this is why all else held the same it's wrong to impede water
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Aristotelian elements, layers (earth under water under air under fire), things tending to their natural place... I think you'd say that things that go down (even in water) have a predominance of earth.
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You can also look at, e.g., old hermetic texts
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