The Renaissance period was indeed, a completely different when compared to the middle ages. Meaning 'rebirth', the Renaissance was thought to be a new revolution, where people were becoming smarter from learning and education opportunities. There were many new scientific discoveries, as well a...
As Drake explains " the silencing and punishment of Galileo toward the end of a life devoted to scientific inquiry was an event of profound significance for our cultural history" (pg. iii). ... 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 mea...
