Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof The Background, Content, and Use of His Appropriated Treatises on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
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 acqua...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1992, 1992
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1992 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Galileo’s Logical Methodology
- 1. Method, Logic, and Science
- 2. Assessments of Galileo’s Methodology
- 3. Method in the Greek and Latin Traditions
- 4. The Setting for Galileo’s Methodological Terminology
- 5. Logica Docens and Logica Utens
- Notes
- 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
- Concordance of English and Latin Editions
- Index of Terms
- Index of Names