Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof

by: William A. Wallace

Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof
Author: William A. Wallace

Publisher: Springer

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 31 July 2013

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ISBN: 904814115X ISBN 13: 9789048141159

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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. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Springer

Edition details 1992

City: Dordrecht

Pages: 356

More info: height 223 mm width 152 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 121

Departments: Philosophy of science; Astronomy, space & time; History of science; History;

Record updated at: 02 May, 2013 time: 19:55

Summary Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Galileo's Logical Methodology. 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. Bibliography. Index of Terms. Index of Names. List of Tables. List of Figures. Schematic Analysis of Galileo's Arguments. Top page

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