Talk:Stillman Drake

Untitled
Our own User:Dandrake is son of Stillman Drake.

Title
I don't understand the title. Why two names?--Jonpro 05:50, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Reluctant
Stillman Drake was very reluctant to admit that Galileo could make a mistake. As a result, Drake said that Galileo's failure to recognise Neptune as a planet was due to Galileo's lack of a proper stand for his telescope. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.212.97 (talk) 13:23, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

1957
Stillman Drake's 1957 book omits passages that put Galileo in a poor scientific light. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.11.103 (talk) 14:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Koyre
The work of Koyre which you need to cite is: Koyre, A., An Experiment in Measurement, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (1953), 97:222-237  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.28.255.67 (talk) 13:15, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

1967
Mary P. Winsor said that Stillman Drake was given a job at the University of Toronto in 1967 by his friend John Abrams. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.84.67.159 (talk) 12:14, 23 August 2017 (UTC)