Bolzano on Bolzano. A Hitherto Unknown Announcement of Bolzano’s .i.Beyträge./i.

0577245 - FLÚ 2024 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Fuentes Guillén, Elías
Bolzano on Bolzano. A Hitherto Unknown Announcement of Bolzano’s Beyträge.
History and Philosophy of Logic. Roč. 44, č. 4 (2023), s. 442-458. ISSN 0144-5340. E-ISSN 1464-5149
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Keywords : Bernard Bolzano * history of logic in the 19th century * textual studies
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Impact factor: 0.5, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2022.2147750

In 1817, in the preface to his Rein analytischer Beweis, Bernard Bolzano revealed that he had decided to postpone the publication of any subsequent instalment of his Beyträge zu einer begründeteren Darstellung der Mathematik because of the few and ‘superficial’ reviews of its first instalment, published in 1810. Bolzano’s transcriptions of the only two known reviews of this book are conserved at the Literární archiv Památníku národního písemnictví / Muzea literatury, in Prague, together with another manuscript on his Beyträge, the provenance of which was unknown to Bolzano’s scholars until recently. In this paper it is shown that this latter manuscript is a draft of an announcement that was published at the time and that was indeed written at least to some extent by Bolzano himself. This hitherto unknown announcement of Bolzano’s Beyträge not only solves the mystery surrounding that manuscript, but also helps to date the publication of this book more precisely and provides an unusual insight into what we must take Bolzano himself to have considered most noteworthy about his work, namely his study on logic. The paper includes a transcription of the manuscript and an English translation of the announcement.
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