This report examines by Stillman Drake, published by Oxford University Press .
: The book suggests that the prosecution of Galileo was largely fueled by the hostility of academic philosophers who felt threatened by his empirical approach. Galileo: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short ...
Drake uses Galileo's own "lucid arguments" to demonstrate how his work effectively divorced science from philosophy. He views the eventual silencing of Galileo not as an inevitable religious clash, but as an instance of societal authority suppressing a minority opinion—specifically one that contradicted the established Aristotelian worldview. Galileo: A Very Short Introduction - NASA ADS This report examines by Stillman Drake, published by