Mario Biagioli: 2 books
Galileo's Instruments of Credit
Telescopes, Images, Secrecy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
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...
Galileo, Courtier
The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, Galileo, Courtier is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex...