Galileo's Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822948599ISBN-10:822948591UPC:9780822948599Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Europe, Space ScienceBook Topic:17th Century, Renaissance, AstronomySize:8.80 x 6.20 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCBWNNBDAN
Galileo's Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century
From the beginning of Galileo's career, well before the publication of the Sidereus Nuncius, his contemporaries took pains to shape his reputation and fame. They were fully aware that their efforts would shape the course of his career; they also knew that they would profit from helping him. With this book, Anna-Luna Post offers a welcome new perspective on the volatile dynamic between early...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822948599ISBN-10:822948591UPC:9780822948599Book Category:History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Modern, Europe, Space ScienceBook Topic:17th Century, Renaissance, AstronomySize:8.80 x 6.20 x 1.60 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCBWNNBDAN
Anna-Luna Post is a historian of knowledge at Leiden University. She is interested in all facets of the world of scholarship and learning in the early modern period. Trained as a cultural historian and Italianist, she is also fascinated by the intersections between early capitalism and environmental history, especially in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.
Post has held fellowships at the...
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