Galileo's Logic of Discovery and Proof

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...