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    Galileo: Pioneer Scientist

    Stillman Drake

    With this book Drake confirms Galileo as the first recognizably modern scientist, in both his methods and results.

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    Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

    Stillman Drake

    This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential…

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    Telescopes, Tides and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue About the Starry Messenger and Systems of the World

    Stillman Drake

    Publication of Galileo’s Starry Messenger in 1610, detailing startling observations with the newly invented telescope, sparked immediate furor among the astronomers and philosophers of the day. The discovery of the…

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    The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo

    Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, Galileo, as his own popularizer, addressed his writings to contemporary laymen. His support of Copernican cosmology, against the Church’s strong opposition…

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    Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences: Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake

    This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence.

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    Nature, Experiment, and the Sciences: Essays on Galileo and the History of Science in Honour of Stillman Drake

    This collection of essays is a tribute to Stillman Drake by some of his friends and colleagues, and by others on whom his work has had a formative influence.

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    Two New Sciences/A History of Free Fall

    Galileo Galilei,Stillman Drake (University of Toronto (Emeritus))

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    The Controversy on the Comets of 1618: Galileo Galilei, Horatio Grassi, Mario Guiducci, Johann Kepler

    This volume contains the principal works, in English translation, published during the extended controversy between Galileo and the Jesuits over the nature of comets, concluding with a commentary by Johann…

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    Discourse on Bodies in Water

    Galileo Galilei

    This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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    Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised edition

    Galileo Galilei

    Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition .

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    Galileo: A Very Short Introduction

    Stillman Drake (formerly Professor of the History of Science, formerly Professor of the History of Science, University of Toronto)

    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…

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    Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

    Stillman Drake

    This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential…

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    Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

    Stillman Drake

    This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential…

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    Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science: Set

    Stillman Drake

    This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential…

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    Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

    Galileo Galilei

    Including a forward by J L Heilbron and an introduction by Albert Einstein, this work asserts that the earth revolves around the sun.

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    Galileo, Science and the Church

    Jerome J. Langford

    With few exceptions, the vast literature generated by the Galileo affair has either missed the real issues at stake or has lifted them out of their proper historical milieu. Based…

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    Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science

    Stillman Drake,N. M. Swerdlow,Trevor H. Levere

    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…

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