Can it be true that Galilean studies will be without end, without conclusion, that each interpreter will find his own Galileo? William A. Wallace seems to have a historical grasp which will have to be matched by any further workers: he sees directly into Galileo's primary epoch of intellectual formation, the sixteenth century. In this volume, Wallace provides the companion to his splendid annotated translation of CaWeo's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions (University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), pointing to the 'realist ...
Read More
Can it be true that Galilean studies will be without end, without conclusion, that each interpreter will find his own Galileo? William A. Wallace seems to have a historical grasp which will have to be matched by any further workers: he sees directly into Galileo's primary epoch of intellectual formation, the sixteenth century. In this volume, Wallace provides the companion to his splendid annotated translation of CaWeo's Early Notebooks: The Physical Questions (University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), pointing to the 'realist' sources, mainly unearthed by the author himself during the past two decades. Explicit controversy arises, for the issues are serious: nominalism and realism, two early rivals for the foundation of knowledge, contend at the birth of modem science, or better yet, contend in our modem efforts to understand that birth. Related to this, continuity and discontinuity, so opposed to each other, are interwoven in the interpretive writings ever since those striking works of Duhem in the first years of this century, and the later studies of Annaliese Maier, Alexandre Koyre and E. A. Moody. Historio grapher as well as philosopher, Wallace has critically supported the continuity of scientific development without abandoning the revolutionary transforma tive achievement of Galileo's labors. That continuity had its contemporary as well as developmental quality; and we note that William Wallace's Prelude studies are complementary to Maurice A. Finocchiaro's sensitive study of CaWeo and the Art of Reasoning (Boston Studies 61, 1980), wherein the actuality of rhetoric and logic comes to the fore."
Read Less
Add this copy of Prelude to Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth to cart. $36.99, very good condition, Sold by Montana Book Company rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fond du Lac, WI, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by D. Reidel Publishing Company.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 372. 372 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
Add this copy of Prelude to Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth to cart. $72.78, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by D. Reidel Publishing Company.
Add this copy of Prelude to Galileo: Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth to cart. $37.30, very good condition, Sold by First Landing Books & Art, Inc rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Virginia Beach, VA, UNITED STATES, published 1981 by D. Reidel Publishing Company.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Not Issued jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Essays on Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Sources of Galileo's Thought. Vol. 62. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 369pp including bibligraphy, Index of names and index of subjects plus an additional few pages of additional vols. of Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science.
