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Despite the impressive work that has been done during the last decades in the field of the history of logic, our knowledge of the logical debate towards the end of the Middle Ages and in the Early Modern period is still fragmentary. There are a few prominent figures — Leibniz being probably the most important — whose logical works are relatively well known and widely studied. But even the most informed historian would surely admit his ignorance concerning the great majority of the many hundreds (actually, thousands) of logical textbooks published during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Roncaglia, G. (2003). Modal Logic in Germany at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century: Christoph Scheibler’s Opus Logicum . In: Friedman, R.L., Nielsen, L.O. (eds) The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700. The New Synthese Historical Library, vol 53. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0179-2_12
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