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Galileo's Logical Treatises

A Translation, with Notes and Commentary, of his Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book II

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  • © 1992

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  1. William A. Wallace

    1. University of Maryland at College Park, USA

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 138)

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • William A. Wallace
    Pages 1-83

  3. Treatise on Foreknowledges and Foreknowns

    • Galileo Galilei
    Pages 85-123

  4. Treatise on Demonstration

    • Galileo Galilei
    Pages 125-215

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 216-251
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Maryland at College Park, USA

    William A. Wallace

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Galileo's Logical Treatises

  • Book Subtitle: A Translation, with Notes and Commentary, of his Appropriated Latin Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics Book II

  • Authors: William A. Wallace

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8036-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1578-0Published: 30 June 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4116-6Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8036-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 249

  • Topics: Logic

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