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. Drake also published about 130 papers, of which nearly 100
are on Galileo and the rest on related aspects of the history and
philosophy of science. The three-volume collection "Essays on
Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science" includes 80 of
those papers.
Volume I contains a bibliography of the writings of Stillman
Drake, biographical sketches of both Galileo and Drake, and various
essays covering the broad range of Galileo's scientific endeavors,
including outlines of the humanistic and religious background of
his era. Other essays take up textual and bibliographical issues,
analysing Galileo's mass of notes, treatises, and numerous
fragments, previously collected in folios, manuscripts, and
unreliable copies. Drake's wide-ranging essays cover Galileo's
place in the philosophy of science, his relation to his forebears
and impact on posterity, and his contribution to astronomy. In
addition, the essays take up ongoing controversies, such as
Galileo's stance on the affinity of science with the corpus of
human knowledge.
Volume I of Stillman Drake's "Essays on Galileo and the History
and Philosophy of Science" serves as a comprehensive introduction
to Galileo's life, science, and writings, and with its forthcoming
companion volumes, will indeed be a fitting tribute to the memory
of one of Canada's most accomplished scholars.
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