Bryant Stillman DRAKE

Background

DRAKE, Stillman was born on December 24, 1910 in Berkeley, California, United States of America. Son of Bryant S. Drake and Flora Frickstad (Drake).

Education

AB, University of California, Berkeley, 1932; Doctor of Laws, University of California, 1968; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Toronto, 1979; honorary degree, Universita di Padova.

Career

Drake published over 131 books, articles, and book chapters on Galileo. Drake received his first academic appointment in 1967 as full professor at the University of Toronto after a career as a financial consultant. During that time he had begun his studies of the works of Galileo and translated Galileo"s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1953), parts of four of Galileo"s works in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957), and Galileo"s The Assayer in The Controversy of Comets (1960), co-authored with C. Doctorate. O"Malley.

Possibly his most significant contribution to the history of science was his defense of Galileo"s experiments as documented in his published Two New Sciences and in his manuscript notes.

Drake showed how the complex interaction of experimental measurement and mathematical analysis led Galileo to his law of falling bodies. This refuted Alexandre Koyré"s claim that experiment played no significant part in Galileo"s thought.

The jury was composed of Italian epistemologists and science historians. He spent his entire academic career, beginning in 1967, at the University of Toronto"s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.

Achievements

• Bryant Stillman Drake has been listed as a noteworthy History educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Galileo: A Very Short Introduction

    (In a startling reinterpretation of Galileo's trial, Still...)

  • Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue about The Starry Messenger and Systems of the World

    ( Publication of Galileo's Starry Messenger in 1610, deta...)

  • Two New Sciences/A History of Free Fall

    (This is the acclaimed translation by Stillman Drake of "D...)

  • Galileo: Two New Sciences

    ( This is the first new English translation since 1914 of...)

  • Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography

    ( This fascinating, scholarly study by one of the world's...)

  • A History of Free Fall: Aristotle to Galileo, with an Epilogue on Pi in the Sky

    (The times-squared law that Galileo announced could have b...)

  • Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo

    (Directing his polemics against the pedantry of his time, ...)

  • Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (text only) 2nd(Second) edition by G. Galilei,S. Drake

    (Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo PaperbackGalileo Gali...)

  • Galileo Studies: Personality, Tradition, and Revolution

    (The ideas of Galileo Galilei have had profound consequenc...)

  • Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography by Stillman Drake (1981-03-03)

    (Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)

  • Galileo Against the Philosophers in his Dialogue of Cecco di Ronchitti (1605) and Considerations of Alimberto Mauri (1606) : in English translations with introductions and notes by Stillman Drake.
  • Two New Sciences/A History of Free Fall by Galileo Galilei (2000-09-30)
  • Telescopes, Tides, and Tactics: A Galilean Dialogue about The Starry Messenger and Systems of the World by Stillman Drake (1983-07-01)
  • Two New Sciences/A History of Free Fall by Galileo Galilei (2000-09-01)
  • Cause, Experiment, and Science

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Society Canada. Member International Academy History of Science.

Interests

• Music.

Connections

Married Eda Doreen Salzmann, November 14, 1936. Children: Mark Ernest, Daniel Lee. Married Lucille Daneri Jarrell, February 22, 1950.

Married Florence Selvin Casaroli, April 1, 1967.

Father:

Bryant Stillman Drake

Mother:

Flora Ornis (Frickstad) Drake

Spouse:

Florence Selvin Casaroli

Spouse:

Lucille Daneri Jarrell

Spouse:

Eda Doreen Salzmann

child:

Daniel Lee Drake

child:

Mark Ernest Drake