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Author : Galileo Galilei
Release : 1957
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Book Synopsis Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Translated With an Introd. and Notes by Stillman Drake by : Galileo Galilei
Download or read book Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo. Translated With an Introd. and Notes by Stillman Drake written by Galileo Galilei. This book was released on 1957. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Galileo Galilei
Release : 1957
Genre : Astronomy
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Download or read book Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo written by Galileo Galilei. This book was released on 1957. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Galileo
Release : 1957-04-01
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo by : Galileo
Download or read book Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo written by Galileo. This book was released on 1957-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of a telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the subjects of four of his most important writings. Drake's introductory essay place them in their biographical and historical context.
Author : Stillman Drake
Release : 1980
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Galileo by : Stillman Drake
Download or read book Galileo written by Stillman Drake. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. Galileo's own beautifully lucid arguments are used to show how his scientific method was utterly divorced from the Aristotelian approach to physics in that it was based on a search not for causes but for laws. Galileo's method was of over whelming significance for the development of modern physics, and led to a final parting of the ways between science and philosophy. This book is intended for students from sixth-form level upwards studying the history of science/science and philosophy.
Author : Stillman Drake
Release : 1999-07
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science by : Stillman Drake
Download or read book Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science written by Stillman Drake. This book was released on 1999-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For forty years, beginning with the publication of the first modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work of our age. During that time, he published sixteen books on Galileo, including translations of almost all the major writings, and Galileo at Work, the most comprehensive study of Galileo's life and works ever written. His collection Discoveries and Opinions on Galileohas remained in print since its appearance in 1957 and has become the most widely read of all books on Galileo. In addition to his books, Drake published about 130 papers, of which nearly 100 are on Galileo and the rest on related aspects of the history and philosophy of science. This three-volume collection includes eighty of those papers. Drake's papers are an essential supplement to his translations and other books because it was in his papers that he wrote his most detailed technical studies of Galileo's scientific work. There is hardly a subject in Galileo's science that is not considered. Perhaps the most important is the series on mechanics and motion, in which Drake analysed Galileo's manuscript notes recording the experiments by which he discovered and confirmed the law of the acceleration of falling bodies. There are also papers on the notes in which Galileo recorded his discovery of Jupiter's satellites and on other aspects of Galileo's astronomy, including his defence of the Copernican theory. Other papers consider Galileo's life and scientific work in general, exploring what Drake calls the 'scientific personality' of Galileo along with his scientific method and philosophy of science. In addition to the papers on Galileo, there are a number of papers on medieval and early modern science, principally on mechanics, and on the philosophers A.B. Johnson and J.B. Stallo, both of whom influenced Drake's own philosophy of science.
