ISBN:
9789401580403
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXIII, 333 p)
,
digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 137
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 137
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Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
;
Science Philosophy
;
Logic
;
History
;
Physics—Philosophy.
;
Astronomy—Observations.
;
Science—Philosophy.
Abstract:
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 Analystics 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's scholars and to logicians, philosophers, and historians, but to anyone interested in the epistemic roots of modern science
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-015-8040-3
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