Stillman Drake was a Canadian and American historian of science best known for his work on Galileo Galilei. He was born and educated in Berkeley, California and then worked in municipal finance in the US and Puerto Rico until moving to the University of Toronto in 1967. Including his translations, Drake wrote 16 books on Galileo and contributed to 15 others. He was a winner of the Galileo Galilei Prize (1984) and the George Sarton Medal (1988).
