現代物理学の発展にとって極めて大きな意義のあるガリレオ・ガリレイ(1565-1642年)の方法論は、科学と哲学を切り離す決定打になりました。その研究が原因ではなく法則を探求することに根差したという点において、物理に対する取り組み方が、いかにアリストテレスのそれとは異なっていたかということを、ガリレオの明快な議論を用いて解説しています。
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.
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Introduction
1: The background
2: Galileo's early years
3: Conflicts with philosophers
4: Conflicts with astronomers and theologians
5: The Dialogue and the Inquisition
6: The final years
Reading list
Index
stimulating and very convincing. - Theology
ISBN : 9780192854568
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