... to be repressive, in some ways intolerant and guilty of persecution of dissidents. How little times have changed? Many minorities and women have barely managed to emerge from this equivalent climate and attitude today! Throughout the book Drake attempts to portray Galileo as a man striving for a new philosophy that would displace verbal exercise of Aristotle but unlike them did not set one forth ... . Drake comments that, "Aristotle's physics offered material, formal, efficient and purposive causes of every kind of ... fit observation was no reason to exalt either, or to abandon either....

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