﻿ TY - BOOK DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 46773279 LA - English T1 - Galileo : a very short introduction A1 - Drake, Stillman., PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford; New York Y1 - 2001/// SN - 0192854569 9780192854568 AB - "Galileo's scientific method was of overwhelming significance for the development of modern physics, and led to a final parting of the ways between science and philosophy." "In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition in 1633 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."--BOOK JACKET. ER -