Galileo

A Very Short Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-285456-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 114 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 118 g

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 development of modern physics, and led to a final parting of the ways between science and philosophy.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Drake, Stillman

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Experimentalphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomie: Allgemeines
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Geschichte der Physik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of illustrations

- Introduction

- 1: The background

- 2: Galileo's early years

- 3: Conflicts with philosophers

- 4: Conflicts with astronomers and theologians

- 5: The Dialogue and the Inquisition

- 6: The final years

- Reading list

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stillman Drake, FRSC, formerly Professor of the History of Science, University of Toronto, and author of Galileo: His Scientific Biography (1978). His translations of Galileo's scientific works include Cause, Experiment, and Science (1981) and Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics (1983).