Galileo S Logic Of Discovery And Proof

Author : W. A. Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
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Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401580413

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Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof by W. A. Wallace Pdf

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 importance, the teaching is difficult to explain to the modern reader. Part of the problem stems from the fragmentary nature of the manuscript in which it is preserved, part from the contents of the teaching itself, which requires a considerable propadeutic for its comprehension. A word of explanation is thus required to set out the structure of the volume and to detail the editorial decisions that underlie its organization. Two major manuscript studies have advanced the cause of scholarship on Galileo within the past two decades. The first relates to Galileo's experimental activity at Padua prior to his discoveries with the telescope that led to the publication of his Sidereus nuncius in 1610. Much of this activity has been uncovered by Stillman Drake in analyses of manuscript fragments associated with the composition of Galileo's Two New Sciences, fragments now bound in a codex identified as MS 72 in the collection of Galileiana at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence.

Author : W. A. Wallace
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401580403

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Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof by W. A. Wallace Pdf

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 importance, the teaching is difficult to explain to the modern reader. Part of the problem stems from the fragmentary nature of the manuscript in which it is preserved, part from the contents of the teaching itself, which requires a considerable propadeutic for its comprehension. A word of explanation is thus required to set out the structure of the volume and to detail the editorial decisions that underlie its organization. Two major manuscript studies have advanced the cause of scholarship on Galileo within the past two decades. The first relates to Galileo's experimental activity at Padua prior to his discoveries with the telescope that led to the publication of his Sidereus nuncius in 1610. Much of this activity has been uncovered by Stillman Drake in analyses of manuscript fragments associated with the composition of Galileo's Two New Sciences, fragments now bound in a codex identified as MS 72 in the collection of Galileiana at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence.

Author : Galileo Galilei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Logic, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015028409640

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Galileo's Logical Treatises by Galileo Galilei Pdf

Author : Galileo Galilei,Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 438 pages
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Release : 1997-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520206465

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Galileo on the World Systems by Galileo Galilei,Maurice A. Finocchiaro Pdf

This classic work proves the truth of the Copernican system over the Ptolemaic one, that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Author : Gregory W. Dawes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317268888

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Galileo and the Conflict between Religion and Science by Gregory W. Dawes Pdf

For more than 30 years, historians have rejected what they call the ‘warfare thesis’ – the idea that there is an inevitable conflict between religion and science – insisting that scientists and believers can live in harmony. This book disagrees. Taking as its starting point the most famous of all such conflicts, the Galileo affair, it argues that religious and scientific communities exhibit very different attitudes to knowledge. Scripturally based religions not only claim a source of knowledge distinct from human reason. They are also bound by tradition, insist upon the certainty of their beliefs, and are resistant to radical criticism in ways in which the sciences are not. If traditionally minded believers perceive a clash between what their faith tells them and the findings of modern science, they may well do what the Church authorities did in Galileo’s time. They may attempt to close down the science, insisting that the authority of God’s word trumps that of any ‘merely human’ knowledge. Those of us who value science must take care to ensure this does not happen.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9780192856418

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Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy by Peter Adamson Pdf

Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he tells the story of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from the 8th century to the 15th century, then he explores the rebirth of philosophy in Italy in the era of Machiavelli and Galileo.

Author : Lorenzo Magnani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642374289

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Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology by Lorenzo Magnani Pdf

This book contains contributions presented during the international conference on Model-Based Reasoning (MBR ́012), held on June 21-23 in Sestri Levante, Italy. Interdisciplinary researchers discuss in this volume how scientific cognition and other kinds of cognition make use of models, abduction, and explanatory reasoning in order to produce important or creative changes in theories and concepts. Some of the contributions analyzed the problem of model-based reasoning in technology and stressed the issues of scientific and technological innovation. The book is divided in three main parts: models, mental models, representations; abduction, problem solving and practical reasoning; historical, epistemological and technological issues. The volume is based on the papers that were presented at the international

Author : William A Wallace
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813208602

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The Modeling of Nature by William A Wallace Pdf

The Modeling of Nature provides an excellent introduction to the fundamentals of natural philosophy, psychology, logic, and epistemology.

Author : Maurice A. Finocchiaro
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0520063600

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The Galileo Affair by Maurice A. Finocchiaro Pdf

"A classic introduction to Galileo's masterpiece."--William A. Wallace, author of "Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof

Author : Michael Sharratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521566711

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Galileo by Michael Sharratt Pdf

An entertaining, accessible biography of one of the greatest innovators ever known.

Author : W. A. Wallace
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401580366

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Galileo's Logical Treatises by W. A. Wallace Pdf

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.

Author : Mario Livio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501194740

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Galileo by Mario Livio Pdf

An “intriguing and accessible” (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. “We really need this story now, because we’re living through the next chapter of science denial” (Bill McKibben). Galileo’s story may be more relevant today than ever before. At present, we face enormous crises—such as minimizing the dangers of climate change—because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo encountered this problem 400 years ago. His discoveries, based on careful observations and ingenious experiments, contradicted conventional wisdom and the teachings of the church at the time. Consequently, in a blatant assault on freedom of thought, his books were forbidden by church authorities. Astrophysicist and bestselling author Mario Livio draws on his own scientific expertise and uses his “gifts as a great storyteller” (The Washington Post) to provide a “refreshing perspective” (Booklist) into how Galileo reached his bold new conclusions about the cosmos and the laws of nature. A freethinker who followed the evidence wherever it led him, Galileo was one of the most significant figures behind the scientific revolution. He believed that every educated person should know science as well as literature, and insisted on reaching the widest audience possible, publishing his books in Italian rather than Latin. Galileo was put on trial with his life in the balance for refusing to renounce his scientific convictions. He remains a hero and inspiration to scientists and all of those who respect science—which, as Livio reminds us in this “admirably clear and concise” (The Times, London) book, remains threatened everyday.

Author : R. Nola
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401002899

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Rescuing Reason by R. Nola Pdf

Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"? Or does it result from interplay of relations of power - the view of Michel Foucault? Or does our knowledge arise from "the will to power" - the view of Nietzsche? This volume sets out to critically examine the theses of those who would debunk the idea of rational explanation. The book is wide-ranging. The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny.

Author : Colin E. Thorn
Publisher : Bruce Rhoads
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Geomorphology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Scientific Nature of Geomorphology by Colin E. Thorn Pdf

Author : James M. Lattis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226469263

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Between Copernicus and Galileo by James M. Lattis Pdf

Between Copernicus and Galileo is the story of Christoph Clavius, the Jesuit astronomer and teacher whose work helped set the standards by which Galileo's famous claims appeared so radical, and whose teachings guided the intellectual and scientific agenda of the Church in the central years of the Scientific Revolution. Though relatively unknown today, Clavius was enormously influential throughout Europe in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries through his astronomy books—the standard texts used in many colleges and universities, and the tools with which Descartes, Gassendi, and Mersenne, among many others, learned their astronomy. James Lattis uses Clavius's own publications as well as archival materials to trace the central role Clavius played in integrating traditional Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian natural philosophy into an orthodox cosmology. Although Clavius strongly resisted the new cosmologies of Copernicus and Tycho, Galileo's invention of the telescope ultimately eroded the Ptolemaic world view. By tracing Clavius's views from medieval cosmology the seventeenth century, Lattis illuminates the conceptual shift from Ptolemaic to Copernican astronomy and the social, intellectual, and theological impact of the Scientific Revolution.