Galileo  -  Stillman Drake

A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

KORTE INHOUD

In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial 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 to show how his scientific method was utterly divorced from the Aristotelian approach to physics in that it was based on a search not for causes but for laws. Galileo's method was of overwhelming significance for the de...
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2001 Uitgever: Oxford University Press Usa 152 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0192854569 ISBN-13: 9780192854568