Stillman Drake
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stillman Drake , an American historian of science who moved to Canada in 1967 and acquired Canadian citizenship a few years later, is best known for his work on Galileo Galilei . Including his translations, Drake wrote 16 books on Galileo and contributed to 15 others.
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Published Works
- Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1954) (666)
- Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography (1969) (221)
- The Pseudo-Aristotelian Questions of Mechanics in Renaissance Culture (1971) (123)
- Galileo's Experimental Confirmation of Horizontal Inertia: Unpublished Manuscripts (Galileo Gleanings XXII) (1973) (87)
- The controversy on the comets of 1618 (1960) (68)
- Mechanics in sixteenth-century Italy (1969) (65)
- Galileo's Discovery of the Parabolic Trajectory (1975) (63)
- The Role of Music in Galileo's Experiments (1975) (61)
- Galileo and His Sources: The Heritage of the Collegio Romano in Galileo's Science (1985) (54)
- Galileo: Pioneer Scientist (1980) (49)
- Free fall from Albert of Saxony to Honoré Fabri (1975) (48)
- Galileo's Discovery of the Law of Free Fall (1973) (39)
- Galileo and the Law of Inertia (1964) (35)
- Renaissance Music and Experimental Science (1970) (35)
- Galileo's observations of Neptune (1980) (34)
- Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science (1999) (34)
- Galileo Studies: Personality, Tradition, and Revolution (1972) (33)
- Galileo, Science and the Church (1971) (32)
- The Controversy on the comets of 1618: Galileo Galilei, Horatio Grassi, Mario Guiducci, Johann Kepler. (1960) (30)
- Galileo's First Telescopic Observations (1976) (28)
- Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo and Galileo. (1969) (27)
- Cause, experiment, and science : a Galilean dialogue, incorporating a new English translation of Galileo's Bodies that stay atop water, or move in it (1981) (25)
- Merchants Against Industry: An Idea and its Origins (1975) (25)
- Galileo’s physical measurements (1986) (24)
- Galileo: A Very Short Introduction (1980) (24)
- Galileo's Sighting of Neptune (1980) (23)
- Galileo, Kepler, and Phases of Venus (1984) (22)
- Impetus Theory Reappraised (1975) (21)
- Early Science and the Printed Book: The Spread of Science Beyond the Universities (1970) (20)
- Galileo’s Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions (1978) (20)
- Uniform Acceleration, Space, and Time (1970) (18)
- Galileo and the First Mechanical Computing Device (1976) (17)
- Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass, 1606 (1978) (17)
- Two new sciences, including centers of gravity & force of percussion (1974) (15)
- Mathematics and discovery in Galileo's physics (1974) (15)
- Galileo and Satellite Prediction (1979) (14)
- Two new sciences : including centers of gravity and force of percussion . History of free fall : Aristotle to Galileo : with an epilogue on π in the sky (2000) (13)
- Galileo's 1604 Fragment on Falling Bodies (Galileo Gleanings XVIII) (1969) (12)
- Galileo's notes on motion (1980) (11)
- Cause, Experiment, and Science (1981) (11)
- GALILEO'S ACCURACY IN MEASURING HORIZONTAL PROJECTIONS (1985) (8)
- A further reappraisal of impetus theory: Buridan, Benedetti, and Galileo (1976) (8)
- Newton's Apple and Galileo's Dialogue (1980) (8)
- Galileo's steps to full Copernicanism, and back (1987) (7)
- Ptolemy, Galileo, and scientific method (1978) (7)
- Galileo on Sense Experience and Foundations of Physics (1977) (7)
- Music and Philosophy in Early Modern Science (1992) (7)
- Mechanics in Sixteenth-Century Italy: Selections from Tartaglia, Benedetti, Guido Ubaldo, and Galileo (1969) (7)
- Galileo's pre-Paduan writings: Years, sources, motivations (1986) (7)
- Medieval Ratio Theory vs Compound Medicines in the Origins of Bradwardine's Rule (1973) (6)
- History of free fall Aristotle to Galileo : with an epilogue of π in the sky (1989) (6)
- Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue about The Starry Messenger and Systems of the World (1983) (6)
- New Light on a Galilean Claim about Pendulums (1975) (6)
- Analysis of Galileo's experimental data (1982) (6)
- Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science: Volume 2 (1999) (5)
- Galileo Gleanings VI: Galileo's First Telescopes at Padua and Venice (1959) (5)
- Galileo's Language: Mathematics and Poetry in a New Science (1973) (4)
- Alleged departures from Galileo's law of descent (1981) (4)
- Galileo and the projection argument (1986) (4)
- Galileo'S ‘Platonic’ Cosmogony and Kepler's Prodromus (1973) (4)
- A Neglected Galilean Letter (1986) (4)
- Copernicus: Philosophy and Science: Bruno-Kepler-Galileo (1973) (4)
- Galileo: Two New Sciences (1975) (4)
- A Seventeenth-Century Malthusian (1967) (4)
- Galileo Gleanings II a Kind Word for Salusbury (1958) (4)
- The unsung journalist and the origin of the telescope (1976) (4)
- Galileo Gleanings III: A Kind Word for Sizzi (1958) (4)
- GALILEO’S CONSTANT (1987) (4)
- Book-Review - this Wild Abyss - the Story of the Men who Made Modern Astronomy (1978) (3)
- The Title Page and Preface of Galileo's Dialogue (1980) (3)
- Galileo’s gravitational units (1989) (3)
- Nature, experiment, and the sciences : essays on Galileo and the history of science (1990) (3)
- The Uniform Motion Equivalent to a Uniformly Accelerated Motion from Rest (Galileo Gleanings XX) (1972) (3)
- The Evolution of De motu (Galileo Gleanings XXIV) (1976) (3)
- Galileo Gleanings IV Bibliographical Notes (1958) (2)
- Galileo Gleanings XII: An Unpublished Letter of Galileo to Peiresc (1962) (2)
- Stillman Drake's Discoveries and Opinions of GalileoDiscoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) (2)
- Galileo Gleanings I: Some Unpublished Anecdotes of Galileo (1957) (2)
- Free Fall in Galileo's Dialogue (1966) (2)
- Hipparchus-Geminus-Galileo (1989) (2)
- Theory and Practice in Early Modern Physics (1994) (2)
- EXACT SCIENCES, PRIMITIVE INSTRUMENTS, AND GALILEO (1982) (2)
- A New View of Newton (1972) (2)
- Copernicanism in Bruno, Kepler, and Galileo (1975) (2)
- Galileo Gleanings VIII: The Origin of Galileo's Book on Floating Bodies and the Question of the Unknown Academician (1960) (1)
- Science in the Middle Ages, edited by David C. Lindberg (1980) (1)
- Reply to the Shea-Wolf Critique (1975) (1)
- A letter from Galileo (1967) (1)
- Galileo and the Career of Philosophy (1977) (1)
- Notes & Correspondence (1959) (1)
- Was Simon Mayr Galileo's "Ancient Adversary" in 1607? (1976) (1)
- Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science: Volume 3 (2000) (1)
- In the Struggle for Truth (1982) (1)
- Notes & Correspondence (1958) (1)
- Galileo's Explorations in Science (1981) (1)
- Galileo against the philosophers in his Dialogue of Cecco di Ronchitti (1605) and Considerations of Alimberto Mauri (1606) : in English translations (1976) (1)
- On the Three Comets of the Year 1618. An Astronomical Disputation on the Three Comets of the year 1618 Translated from the Latin by C. D. O'Malley (1960) (1)
- Chapter One. The Laws of Pendulum and Fall (1990) (1)
- Galileo SAW Neptune (1980) (0)
- Galileo and the Art of Reasoning: Rhetorical Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method. Maurice A. Finocchiaro (1981) (0)
- A Collection of Books Relating to the History and Philosophy of Science (1969) (0)
- Chapter Twelve. Comets, the Church, and Tides (1990) (0)
- Chapter Thirteen. Concerning Galileo's Dialogue (1990) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (1970) (0)
- A memorial tribute to Kenneth O. May (1978) (0)
- 4. Conflicts with astronomers and theologians (2001) (0)
- Arthur Koestler and His Sleepwalkers (1959) (0)
- Book Review:The Achievement of Galileo James Brophy, Henry Paolucci (1963) (0)
- 3. Literacy and Scientific Notations (2000) (0)
- Chapter Five. Mechanics, Tides, and Copernicanism (1990) (0)
- ReviewNicolas Chuquet: La géométrie. Premiere géométrie algébraique en langue française (1484): Introduction, text, and notes by Hervé l'Huillier. Paris (J. Vrin). 491 pp. fr. 75.90 (1984) (0)
- Chapter Nine. Astronomy and the Telescope (1990) (0)
- Chapter Seven. Natural Motion and Horizontal Projection (1990) (0)
- A Bibliography of the Writings of Stillman Drake (2000) (0)
- Book Review:The Birth of a New Physics I. Bernard Cohen (1960) (0)
- The Crime of Galileo. Giorgio de Santillana (1956) (0)
- 2. Galileo's early years (2001) (0)
- Book Review:Studies in Musical Science in the Late Renaissance D. P. Walker (1980) (0)
- Galileo Against the Philosophers in His Dialogue of Cecco di Ronchitti and Considerations of Alimberto Mauri (1976) (0)
- Book Review:The Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics J. B. Stallo, P. W. Bridgman (1962) (0)
- Appendix to the Hyperaspistes Translated from the Latin by C. D. O'Malley (1960) (0)
- R. E. BUTTS and J. C. PITT (Editors). New Perspectives on Galileo. Dordrecht and Boston, D. Reidel, 1978, pp. XVI + 262 fig., $ 29.50 cl., $ 12.50 ppr. (1979) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1960) (0)
- Thomas Harriot, Renaissance Scientist; Galileo (1976) (0)
- Note on Professor Franklin's Paper (1977) (0)
- 3. Conflicts with philosophers (2001) (0)
- Matter of a letter (1985) (0)
- Reply to Edward Rosen's Note (1978) (0)
- Copernicanism and Galileo in Bruno , Kepler (2002) (0)
- Copernicanism and Galileo in Bruno , Kepler (2002) (0)
- Chapter Sixteen. Galilean Units Today (1990) (0)
- Did Galileo See Neptune (1980) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1960) (0)
- Chapter Fifteen. From Galileo to Newton (1990) (0)
- 5. The Dialogue and the Inquisition (2001) (0)
- Chapter Ten. The Telescope and Copernicanism (1990) (0)
- Book Review:Galileo in China Pasquale M. D'Elia, Rufus Suter, Matthew Sciascia (1962) (0)
- The Astronomical Balance Translated from the Latin by C. D. O'Malley (1960) (0)
- Book Review:Mechanism and Materialism. British Natural Philosophy in an Age of Reason Robert E. Schofield (1971) (0)
- Letter to Tarquinio Galluzzi Translated from the Italian by Stillman Drake (1960) (0)
- Science in a Renaissance Society; Science and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1974) (0)
- Book Review: A Koestler-Type Popularization, This Wild Abyss: The Story of the Men Who Made Modern Astronomy (1980) (0)
- 5.8. Kepler and Galileo (1975) (0)
- Chapter Six. Cosmology, Mechanics, and Motion (1990) (0)
- The origins of the infinitesimal calculus, by Margaret E. Baron, viii+304 pages. Oxford Univ. Press, New York; Pergamon Press, New York, 1969. $13. (1972) (0)
- The Mathematical Preface to . . .Euclid (1570) (1976) (0)
- 6. The final years (2001) (0)
- The tower argument in the Dialogue (1988) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1961) (0)
- Chapter Three. Galileo’s Pre-Paduan Doctrine of Motion (1990) (0)
- 1. The Background (2001) (0)
- 12. Impetus Theory Reappraised (2000) (0)
- Book Review:New Perspectives on Galileo R. E. Butts, J. C. Pitt (1979) (0)
- J. V. Field. Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1988. Pp. xx, 243. $37.50 (1989) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1960) (0)
- Book Review: Galileian Documents, the Galileo Affair: A Documentary History (1990) (0)
- A.B. Johnson's a Treatise on Language or, the Relation Which Words Bear to Things (1940) (0)
- Book Review:The Infinite Worlds of Giordano Bruno Antoinette Mann Paterson (1971) (0)
- Chapter Fourteen. Two New Sciences (1990) (0)
- Notes & Correspondence (1957) (0)
- A letter from Galileo: Galileo, the innovator (1967) (0)
- Chapter Eight. Oblique Projection,- Other Physics (1990) (0)
- Discourse on the Comets Translated from the Italian by Stillman Drake (1960) (0)
- Chapter Two. The Medieval Context (1990) (0)
- Book Review: Galileian Biographies: Galileo Galilei, Galileo Galilei (1984) (0)
- Chapter Eleven. Hydrostatics, Philosophers, and Religion (1990) (0)
- Chapter Four. The Ancient Greek Background (1990) (0)
- Book Review:Samuel Hartlib and the Advancement of Learning Charles Webster (1971) (0)
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