Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof : The Background, Content, and Use of his Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book I (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof : The Background, Content, and Use of his Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book I (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

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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.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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