Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own populizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of the telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the ...
This 1967 edition of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a revision of a 1953 edition. It includes a foreword by Albert Einstein, which is presented in en face German and English versions. The translation itself is based on the definitive National Edition prepared under the direction of Antonio Favaro and published at Florence ...
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 ...
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 ...
Drawing on Galileo's scientific working papers and the letters and notebooks of his colleagues, Drake presents and imaginative Galilean dialogue using the text of the Starry Messenger as a departure point for discussions of appropriate scientific method, new discoveries, and the emergence of a new world view at this early stage of the Scientific ...
Detailed accounts, including many excerpts from Galileo's own writings, cover work on motion, mechanics, hydraulics, strength of materials, projectiles; construction of telescopes and pioneering astronomical observations; more. 36 black-and-white illustrations.
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 ...
Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own populizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church's strong opposition, his development of the telescope, and his unorthodox opinions as a philosopher of science were the central concerns of his career and the ...
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