1. Life of Galileo
Galileo's physics according to Drake dealt with local motions, local events and natural occurrences and did not attempt any casual (absolute) explanations even of these. ... Drake comments that, "Aristotle's physics offered material, formal, efficient and purposive causes of every kind of change in nature with little proof or science"(pg. 10). ... Galileo is shown to take for granted that measurement was the key to sound physics and that there is a limit to the accuracy with which actual measurements can be made and hence Galileo did not insist on perfection that philosophers had al...
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