Galileo's Logical Treatises: A Translation, with Notes and Commentary, of his Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book II by W. A. Wallace (Paperback, 2010)
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.
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Publisher
Springer
ISBN-13
9789048141166
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178415268
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Book Title
Galileo's Logical Treatises: A Translation, with Notes and Commentary, of his Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book II
Author
w. A. Wallace
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2010
Number of Pages
249 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
223mm
Item Width
152mm
Volume
138
Item Weight
417g
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Title_Author
w. A. Wallace
Series Title
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science