Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof
W. A. Wallace
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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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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...