Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof: The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Author:   W. A. Wallace
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Volume:   137
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9789048141159


Pages:   333
Publication Date:   12 December 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof: The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics


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The problem of Galileo's logical methodology has long interested scholars. In this volume William A. Wallace offers a solution that is completely unexpected, yet backed by convincing documentary evidence. His analysis starts with an early notebook Galileo wrote at Pisa, appropriating a Jesuit professor's exposition of the Posterior Analystics of Aristotle, and ends with one of the last letters Galileo wrote, stating that in logic he has been a Peripatetic all his life. Wallace's detective work unearths the complete logic course from which the notebook was excerpted, then proceeds to show how its terminology and methodology continue to surface in Galileo's later writings in which he founds his new sciences of the heavens and of local motion. The result is a tour de force that commends itself not only to Galileo's scholars and to logicians, philosophers, and historians, but to anyone interested in the epistemic roots of modern science.

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Author:   W. A. Wallace
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Volume:   137
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.538kg
ISBN:  

9789048141159


ISBN 10:   904814115
Pages:   333
Publication Date:   12 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Galileo’s Logical Methodology.- 1. Method, Logic, and Science.- 2. Assessments of Galileo’s Methodology.- 3. Method in the Greek and Latin Traditions.- 4. The Setting for Galileo’s Methodological Terminology.- 5. Logica Docens and Logica Utens.- Notes.- Logica Docens.- 2: The Understanding of Logic Implicit in Ms 27.- 3: Science and Opinion as Understood in Ms 27.- 4: Demonstration and Its Requirements in Ms 27.- Logica Utens.- 5: Galileo’s Search for a New Science of the Heavens.- 6: Galileo’s New Sciences of Mechanics and Local Motion.- Epilogue.- Concordance of English and Latin Editions.- Index of Terms.- Index of Names.

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