Galileo's instruments of credit
Subtitle: telescopes, images, secrecy
By: Mario Biagioli.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Scientific apparatus and instruments -- History.; Discoveries in science.
Description: The author proposes radical interpretations of key episodes of Galileo's career, including his telescopic discoveries of 1610 the dispute over sunspots, and the conflict with the Holy Office over the relationship between Copernicanism and Scripture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Financing the aura: distance and the construction of scientific authority; title: Replication or monopoly? From the telescope to the Medicean Stars; title: Between risk and credit: picturing objects in the making; title: The supplemental economy of Galileo's book of nature.