Galileo's instruments of credit telescopes, images, secrecy / [electronic resource] :
Mario Biagioli.
- University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- 1 online resource (302 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-284) and index.
From brass instruments to textual supplements -- Financing the aura: distance and the construction of scientific authority -- Replication or monopoly?: the Medicean stars between invention and discovery -- Between risk and credit: picturing objects in the making -- The supplemental economy of Galileo's book of nature -- Unintended differences.
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 a.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 --Criticism and interpretation. Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Research--Moral and ethical aspects. Scientific apparatus and instruments--History. Discoveries in science. Recherche--Aspect moral. Appareils et instruments scientifiques--Histoire. Découvertes scientifiques. SCIENCE--Astronomy.