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Galileo
A Very Short Introduction
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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 overwhelming significance for the development of modern physics, and led to a final parting of the ways between science and philosophy.
Oxford University Press; January 2001
152 pages; ISBN 9780191606663
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152 pages; ISBN 9780191606663
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Subject categories
- Academic > Space Sciences > General > Astronomers > Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601
- Academic > Space Sciences > General > Astronomers > Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642
- Academic > Space Sciences > General > Astronomy
- Academic > Space Sciences > Theoretical astronomy and celestial mechanics
- Science > Astronomy
- Science > History
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019154051X
9780191540516
9780191606663
9780192854568