Galileo: A Very Short Introduction

by Stillman Drake

Book Overview

In a startling reinterpretation of Galileo's trial, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's prosecution 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 in this volume to show how his scientific method was utterly divorced from the Aristotelian approach to physics; it was based on a search not for causes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192854569
• ISBN13: 9780192854568
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 7.0"