Galileo
By: Stillman Drake.
Series: A very short introduction ;; 44; Very short introductions ;; 44.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.; Astronomers -- Italy -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Galileo's scientific method was of overwhelming significance for the development of modern physics, and led to a final parting of the ways between science and philosophy." "In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition in 1633 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-121) and index.
Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1980, in series: Past masters.