Eiseley and Galileo Their Views

ÒEiseley and Galileo: Their ViewsÓ Loren Eiseley was an anthropologist, an author, and an educator in the United States, in the 20 century. Eiseley wrote anthropology for the lay person in a poetic style. Loren Eiseley was educated at the University of Nebraska and the University of Pennsylvania. He began his academic career at the University of Kansas in 1937 and Oberlin College in 1944. Besides serving as a professor of anthology, he also served as a consultant …

…but he does not go into as much detail as Eiseley does when comparing life and science to other beings. Galileo tends to write more like a philosopher, as he should being from the 17th century, and he uses a lot of mathematics to prove truth. Both writers developed a sense of how science and life are related. They both used examples and proved their philosophy on life and science using examples from their lives.