| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The generation and dissolution of images -- Becoming a "great magneticall man" -- Drawing weapons -- Interceptions -- Interconnections -- Transalpine messengers -- Masks -- Conclusion: science, intercepted. |
| Summary |
'Galileo's Idol' is a historical case-study of the use of information in the making of early modern scientific knowledge. It studies the relationship between natural philosophical and political practices in the Venetian Mediterranean at the start of the seventeenth century. Using the figure of Galileo's closest friend and confidant, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620), it shows how techniques of political information exchange were appropriated by early practitioners of the new science. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sagredo, Gianfrancesco, 1571-1620.
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Sagredo, Gianfrancesco, 1571-1620. |
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
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Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. |
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Science -- Biography.
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Science. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology. |
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SCIENCE -- History. |
| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wilding, Nick. Galileo's idol 9780226166971 (DLC) 2014012022 (OCoLC)869589049 |
| ISBN |
9780226167022 (electronic book) |
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022616702X (electronic book) |
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9780226166971 (print) |
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