Stillman Drake

2.0k total citations
91 papers, 642 citations indexed

About

Stillman Drake is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stillman Drake has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 642 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 29 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 9 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Stillman Drake's work include History of Science and Medicine (23 papers), History and Developments in Astronomy (22 papers) and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (20 papers). Stillman Drake is often cited by papers focused on History of Science and Medicine (23 papers), History and Developments in Astronomy (22 papers) and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (20 papers). Stillman Drake collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. Stillman Drake's co-authors include Galileo Galilei, Paul Lawrence Rose, C. T. Kowal, Harry Woolf, William A. Wallace, Johannes Kepler, R. S. Shankland, Raymond J. Seeger, Peter A. Schouls and Alexandre Koyré and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Stillman Drake

77 papers receiving 511 citations

Peers

Stillman Drake
Alan E. Shapiro United States
Marshall Clagett United States
Thomas L. Hankins United States
Robert E. Schofield United States
E. J. Dijksterhuis United States
Carl B. Boyer United States
P. M. Harman United Kingdom
Edward Grant United States
L. Pearce Williams United States
Alan E. Shapiro United States
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Fields of papers citing papers by Stillman Drake

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All Works

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Drake, Stillman. (1999). Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1995). Galileo at work : his scientific biography. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1990). Galileo. University of Toronto Press eBooks. 17 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman, Trevor H. Levere, & William R. Shea. (1990). Nature, experiment, and the sciences : essays on Galileo and the history of science. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Galilei, Galileo & Stillman Drake. (1990). Discoveries and opinions of Galileo : including The starry messenger (1610), Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615), and excerpts from Letters on sunspots (1613), The assayer (1623). 7 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1987). Galileo's steps to full Copernicanism, and back. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 18(1). 93–105. 4 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1984). Galileo, Kepler, and Phases of Venus. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 15(3). 198–208. 6 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman & Galileo Galilei. (1981). Cause, experiment, and science : a Galilean dialogue, incorporating a new English translation of Galileo's Bodies that stay atop water, or move in it. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1980). Newton's Apple and Galileo's Dialogue. Scientific American. 243(2). 150–156. 6 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1978). A memorial tribute to Kenneth O. May. Historia Mathematica. 5(1). 3–12. 1 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1978). Galileo’s Early Notebooks. New Scholasticism. 52(4). 586–587. 11 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1976). The unsung journalist and the origin of the telescope. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1975). Copernicanism in Bruno, Kepler, and Galileo. Vistas in Astronomy. 17. 177–192. 1 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1974). Mathematics and discovery in Galileo's physics. Historia Mathematica. 1(2). 129–150. 10 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1973). Copernicus: Philosophy and Science: Bruno-Kepler-Galileo. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1970). Uniform Acceleration, Space, and Time. The British Journal for the History of Science. 5(1). 21–43. 8 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1967). A Seventeenth-Century Malthusian. Isis. 58(3). 401–402. 3 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1966). The Accademia dei Lincei. Science. 151(3715). 1194–1200. 2 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman, et al.. (1960). The controversy on the comets of 1618. University of Pennsylvania Press eBooks. 23 indexed citations
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Drake, Stillman. (1958). Galileo Gleanings III: A Kind Word for Sizzi. Isis. 49(2). 155–165. 1 indexed citations

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