Galileo: A Very Short Introduction
(Part of the Very Short Introductions (#44) Series and Oxford's Very Short Introductions series (#44) Series)
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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"
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