Summary Until Galileo's time science was a handmaiden of philosophy which in turn was the handmaiden of theology. ... Drake throughout the book portrays Galileo as a mechanical genius, a spiritual man with an incessant drive to explain the world through science. ... All references are made with respect to Drake Stillman's book and for convenience and brevity only the pages of interest will be referenced to. Analysis Drake divides up his book as follows: Early years, conflicts with philosophers, conflicts with astronomers and theologians, the Dialogue and the Inquisition and fin...

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However, one of the problems that our research confronted is that a single book or story offers few opportunities to learn new words through multiple encounters because the needed repetitions simply do not occur. ...

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Even with the growing recognition of the need for work on ITTE, it is interesting to note that the 1200-page Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (Jonassen, 1996) does not have a chapter on technology and teacher education, and the term teacher education does not appear in the index of the book. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate