... reader is introduced to Galileo at the beginning of his career that early on shows promise of brilliance not seen in centuries. Drake throughout the book portrays Galileo as a mechanical genius, a spiritual man with an incessant drive to explain the world through science. Drake in the end makes a convincing biography of Galileo as a man hounded by his Church, its dogma and ... only with properties of things and observed events" (pg. 54). I see this as a declaration of the independence of science from philosophy and also from the Church that subscribed to it. A staggering revelation sinc...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate