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The ideas of Galileo Galilei have had profound consequences for Western thought. In Galileo Studies, the distinguished scholar Stillman Drake presents his famous subject in a unique and insightful new light. Historians of science have traditionally concerned themselves with the continuities of medieval and modern thought, and with the evolution of physics and astronomy after Galileo's time. Such an approach has tended to obscure the elements of Galileo's work which were misconstrued or ignored by such later investigators as Bacon, Descartes, and Locke. A fictitious thinker is substituted for the real man. Stillman Drake's book offers a necessary complement to the historical approach, by focusing on the individuality of Galileo's creative work. With a view to placing the origins of modern science in better perspective, Drake examines Galileo's discoveries in isolation from a supposed continuity with the past and from analogies with later scientific developments. The aim is to see Galileo's work as he himself approached and evaluated it. Galileo's unique contributions are viewed against the intellectual backdrop of the age; and his scientific personality is revealed in his work with the telescope, his theory of the tides, and his dispute with the hidebound advocates of traditional science and philosophy.
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About the Author
STILLMAN DRAKE was Professor of the History of Science at the University of Toronto. His translations of Galileo's scientific works include "Cause, Experiment, and Scien"ce (1981) and "Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics" (1983).
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"An interesting and stimulating introduction to the life and works of Galileo by the doyen of Galilean studies. The author studies the interplay of mathematical reasoning and physical experimentation in the genesis of the law of free fall and in the employment of Galileo's methodology."--Mathematical Reviews "An interesting and stimulating introduction to the life and works of Galileo by the doyen of Galilean studies. The author studies the interplay of mathematical reasoning and physical experimentation in the genesis of the law of free fall and in the employment of Galileo's methodology."--Mathematical Reviews "An interesting and stimulating introduction to the life and works of Galileo by the doyen of Galilean studies. The author studies the interplay of mathematical reasoning and physical experimentation in the genesis of the law of free fall and in the employment of Galileo's methodology."--Mathematical Reviews "An interesting and stimulating introduction to the life and works of Galileo by the doyen of Galilean studies. The author studies the interplay of mathematical reasoning and physical experimentation in the genesis of the law of free fall and in the employment of Galileo's methodology."--Mathematical Reviews
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- PublisherThe University of Michigan Press [1970]
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0472082833
- ISBN 13 9780472082834
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages289
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