内容简介：
In a startling reinterpretation of the evidence, Stillman Drake advances the hypothesis that Galileo's trial and condemnation by the Inquisition was caused not by his defiance of the Church, but by the hostility of contemporary philosophers. Galileo's own beautifully lucid arguments are used to show how his scientific method was utterly divorced from the Aristotelian approach to physics in that it was based on a search not for causes but for laws. Galileo's method was of overwhelming significance for the development of modern physics, and led to a final parting of the ways between science and philosophy.
作者简介：
作者是加拿大多伦多大学名誉科学史教授，曾把伽利略的大部分著作译成英文，并撰写了《伽利略的科学生涯》和《伽利略研究》等著作。他是目前伽利略问题的最主要权威之一。此外作者还是美国文理科学院的成员，并为国际科学史学会会员
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