Galileo: A very short Introduction (Record no. 294215)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780192854568
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 520.92 DRA-G
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Stillman Drake
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Galileo: A very short Introduction
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford ; New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2001
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 127 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "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."--Jacket.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 01/09/2015   520.92 DRA-G DCB829 01/09/2015 19/07/2019 Book