TY  - BOOK
AU  - Biagioli,Mario
TI  - Galileo's instruments of credit: telescopes, images, secrecy 
SN  - 9780226045634 (electronic bk.)
AV  - Q180.55.M67 B53 2006eb
U1  - 520/.92B 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Galilei, Galileo,
KW  - Research
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Scientific apparatus and instruments
KW  - History
KW  - Discoveries in science
KW  - Recherche
KW  - Aspect moral
KW  - Appareils et instruments scientifiques
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Découvertes scientifiques
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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