Galileo's logical treatises
Subtitle: a translation, with notes and commentary, of his appropriated Latin questions on Aristotle's Posterior analytics
By: William A. Wallace.
Contributors: Wallace, William A.; Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;; v. 138
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Logic, Modern -- 16th century
Description: "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 Analytics 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 scholars and to logicians, philosophers, and historians, but to anyone interested in the epistemic roots of modern science."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-224) and indexes.
Companion vol. to: Galileo's logic of discovery and proof / William A. Wallace.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Treatise on foreknowledges and foreknowns; title: Treatise on demonstration.