Cause, Experiment, and Science - Softcover

Drake, Stillman

 
9780226162300: Cause, Experiment, and Science
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226162303 ISBN 13: 9780226162300
Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1984

Synopsis

The book that ushered in the modern age of experimental science was a best-seller; controversial, it so caught the fancy of intelligent laymen that it sold out a once and an expanded second edition was printed that same year -- 1612. Stillman Drake's form of reviving what was Galileo's first book on physics will itself be found controversial by specialists and entertaining by the interested lay reader.Drake's imaginative tour de force presents the first English translation of "Bodies That Stay atop Water, or Move in It" since the seventeenth century. Moreover, Drake has created a Galilean dialogue among three personae Galileo himself employed in two later dialogues -- Sagredo (an intelligent aristocrat), Simplicio (an Aristotelian), and Salviati (who represents the new science and supports Galileo). The whole of Galileo's "Bodies" is included, printed in a second color to distinguish it from this fictional contemporary discussion.

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Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
1984
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226162303
ISBN 13 
9780226162300
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
238

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