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Language: en
Pages: 568
Authors: Stillman Drake
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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This fascinating, scholarly study by one of the world's foremost authorities on Galileo offers a vivid portrait of one of history's greatest minds. Detailed acc
Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Galileo
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1957-04-01 - Publisher: Anchor

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Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernic
Galileo Studies: Personality, Tradition, and Revolution
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Stillman Drake
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1970 - Publisher: Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

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In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his def
To Save the Phenomena
Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Pierre Duhem
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1969 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics–an issue still of impo
The English Galileo
Language: en
Pages: 755
Authors: Matthias Schemmel
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-16 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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The English Galileo—the title of this book draws on the extraordinary prominence of Galileo Galilei in the historiography of the early modern Scienti?c Revolu