Galileo

by Stillman Drake

Book Overview

In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's 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--based on a search not for causes but for laws--was utterly divorced from the Aristotelian approach to physics. His methodology had a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402768869
• ISBN13: 9781402768866
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 7.4"