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ESSAYS ON GALILEO AND THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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v. 2 |
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Stillman Drake, N.M. Swerdlow, Trevor H. Levere |
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Paperback |
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£41.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0802081649 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780802081643 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 1999 |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Description: |
Stillman Drake was one of the 20th century's authors on the subject of Galileo's scientific work. This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers Drake published, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). |
| Synopsis: |
For Forty Years, Beginning With The Publication Of The First Modern English translation of the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Stillman Drake was the most original and productive scholar of Galileo's scientific work of our age. During that time, he published sixteen books on Galileo, including translations of almost all the major writings, and Galileo at Work, the most comprehensive study of Galileo's life and works ever written. His collection Discoveries and Opinions on Galileo has remained in print since its appearance in 1957 and has become the most widely read of all books on Galileo. In addition to his books, Drake published about 130 papers, of which nearly 100 are on Galileo and the rest on related aspects of the history and philosophy of science. This three-volume collection includes eighty of those papers.Drake's papers are an essential supplement to his translations and other books because it was in his papers that he wrote his most detailed technical studies of Galileo's scientific work. There is hardly a subject in Galileo's science that is not considered. Perhaps the most important are the series on mechanics and motion, in which Drake analysed Galileo's manuscript notes recording the experiments by which he discovered and confirmed the law of the acceleration of falling bodies. There are also papers on the notes in which Galileo recorded his discovery of Jupiter's satellites and on other aspects of Galileo's astronomy, including his defence of the Copernican theory.Other papers consider Galileo's life and scientific work in general, exploring what Drake calls the 'scientific personality' of Galileo, and his scientific method and philosophy ofscience. In addition to the papers on Galileo, there are a number of papers on medieval and early modern science, principally on mechanics, and on the philosophers A.B. Johnson and J.B. Stallo, both of whom influenced Drake's own philosophy of science.This collection is indeed a fitting tribute to the memory of one of Canada's most accomplished scholars. |
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19ill. |
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Canada |
| Imprint: |
University of Toronto Press |
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