How Long to Read Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof

How Long Does it Take to Read Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 36 minutes to read Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof by W. A. Wallace

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof?

Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof by W. A. Wallace is 333 pages long, and a total of 84,249 words.

This makes it 112% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 40 minutes to read Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof aloud.

What Reading Level is Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof?

Galileo’s Logic of Discovery and Proof is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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