Galileo: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Stillman DrakeSeries:Very Short Introductions #44Publish date:2001-06-07Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192854568ISBN-10:192854569UPC:9780192854568Book Category:Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History, Science & Technology, Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:7.00 x 4.47 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SCEX1TC2M4
Galileo: A Very Short Introduction
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...
Series: Very Short Introductions #44
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780192854568ISBN-10:192854569UPC:9780192854568Book Category:Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History, Science & Technology, Space ScienceBook Topic:AstronomySize:7.00 x 4.47 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.2601Product ID:SCEX1TC2M4
Stillman Dranke is a Professor Emeritus of History of Science at the University of Toronto.
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