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Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof
William A. Wallace
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Hardback. The problem of Galileo's logical methodology has long interested scholars. This title offers a solution that is backed by documentary evidence. It presents an analysis that starts with an early notebook Galileo wrote at Pisa, and ends with one of the last letters Galileo wrote, stating that in logic he has been a Peripatetic all his life. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 698.
This volume is presented as a companion study to my translation of Galileo's MS 27, Galileo's Logical Treatises, which contains Galileo's appropriated questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics - a work only recently transcribed from the Latin autograph. Its purpose is to acquaint an English-reading audience with the teaching in those treatises. This is basically a sixteenth-century logic of discovery and of proof about which little is known in the present day, yet one that arguably guided the most significant research program of the seventeenth century. Despite its historical and systematic importance, the teaching is difficult to explain to the modern ... Read more
This volume is presented as a companion study to my translation of Galileo's MS 27, Galileo's Logical Treatises, which contains Galileo's appropriated questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics - a work only recently transcribed from the Latin autograph. Its purpose is to acquaint an English-reading audience with the teaching in those treatises. This is basically a sixteenth-century logic of discovery and of proof about which little is known in the present day, yet one that arguably guided the most significant research program of the seventeenth century. Despite its historical and systematic importance, the teaching is difficult to explain to the modern ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Number of Pages
333
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792315773
SKU
V9780792315773
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