Talk:Stillman Drake

Our own User:Dandrake is son of Stillman Drake.

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

Does anybody understand what this query was supposed to mean? I mean, like most of us have 2 or three names, unlike e.g., Suharto and other prominent people of Indonesia. Dandrake (talk) 12:24, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

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)

Sure, like people were discovering new planets (in the modern sense, let us not fall into the fallacy of thinking the word has not changed in meaning in 400 years) all the time - Not. BTW as an amatateur student of Galileo's work, I have never heard of this "lack of a proper stand" thing. Can we put a Citation Needed notation in a comment like this? Dandrake (talk) 12:32, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

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) [Citation needed] are there any standards whatsoever for the mainenanance of comments, or is Wikipedia just an extension of the Internet's gladiatorial combat? Dandrake (talk) 12:42, 25 December 2025 (UTC)dandrake

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)

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)

Big freaking surprise. So what? BTW Johnny Abrams (as Stillman called him) was a significant scholar in his own right, and arguably deserves his own Wikipedia entry. Is anyone in Toronto game for this? Dandrake (talk) 12:38, 25 December 2025 (UTC)