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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