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Galileo's Instruments of Credit - Telescopes, Images, Secrecy (Hardcover)
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Galileo's Instruments of Credit - Telescopes, Images, Secrecy (Hardcover)
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In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat
obscure mathematics professor running a student boarding house in
Padua to a star in the court of Florence to the recipient of
dangerous attention from the Inquisition for his support of
Copernicanism. In that brief period, Galileo made a series of
astronomical discoveries that reshaped the debate over the physical
nature of the heavens: he deeply modified the practices and status
of astronomy with the introduction of the telescope and pictorial
evidence, proposed a radical reconfiguration of the relationship
between theology and astronomy, and transformed himself from
university mathematician into court philosopher.
"Galileo's Instruments of Credit" proposes radical new
interpretations of several key episodes of Galileo's career,
including his early telescopic discoveries of 1610, the dispute
over sunspots, and the conflict with the Holy Office over the
relationship between Copernicanism and Scripture. Galileo's tactics
during this time shifted as rapidly as his circumstances, argues
Mario Biagioli, and the pace of these changes forced him to respond
swiftly to the opportunities and risks posed by unforeseen
inventions, further discoveries, and the interventions of his
opponents.
Focusing on the aspects of Galileo's scientific life that extend
beyond the framework of court culture and patronage, Biagioli
offers a revisionist account of the different systems of exchanges,
communication, and credibility at work in various phases of
Galileo's career." Galileo's Instruments of Credit "will find
grateful readers among scholars of science studies, historical
epistemology, visual studies, Galilean science, and lateRenaissance
astronomy.
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