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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Galileo's logic of discovery and proof : the background, content, and use of his appropriated treatises on Aristotle's Posterior analytics
(Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 137)
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1992
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Companion study to the author's translation of: Galileo's logical treatises
Bibliography: p. 304-312
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780792315773
Description
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 reader. Part of the problem stems from the fragmentary nature of the manuscript in which it is preserved, part from the contents of the teaching itself, which requires a considerable propadeutic for its comprehension. A word of explanation is thus required to set out the structure of the volume and to detail the editorial decisions that underlie its organization. Two major manuscript studies have advanced the cause of scholarship on Galileo within the past two decades. The first relates to Galileo's experimental activity at Padua prior to his discoveries with the telescope that led to the publication of his Sidereus nuncius in 1610. Much of this activity has been uncovered by Stillman Drake in analyses of manuscript fragments associated with the composition of Galileo's Two New Sciences, fragments now bound in a codex identified as MS 72 in the collection of Galileiana at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence.
Table of Contents
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.
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Description
Hard as it is to believe, what is possibly Galileo's most important Latin manuscript was not transcribed for the National Edition of his works and so has remained hidden from scholars for centuries. In this volume William A. Wallace translates the logical treatises contained in that manuscript and makes them intelligible to the modern reader. He prefaces his translation with a lengthy introduction describing the contents of the manuscript, the sources from which it derives, its dating, and how it relates to Galileo's other Pisan writings. The translation is accompanied by extensive notes and commentary; these explain the text and tie it to the fuller exposition of Galileo's logical methodology in the author's companion volume, Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof.
The result is a research tool that is indispensable for anyone intent on understanding Galileo's logic as described in that volume and the documentary evidence on which it is based.
Table of Contents
Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. Translation. F: Treatise on Foreknowledges and Foreknowns. F2. Second Disputation: On Foreknowledges of Principles. F3. Third Disputation: On Foreknowledges of the Subject. F4. Last Disputation: On Foreknowledges of the Property and of the Conclusion. D: Treatise on Demonstration. D1. First Disputation: On the Nature and Importance of Demonstration. D2. Second Disputation: On the Properties of Demonstration. D3. Third Disputation: On the Species of Demonstration. Notes and Commentary Biographical Register. Concordance of English and Latin Editions. Index of Names/Index of Terms. List of Tables. List of Figures.
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