Galileo's idol : Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the politics of knowledge / Nick Wilding.
2014
Q143.S17 W55 2014eb
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Title
Galileo's idol : Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the politics of knowledge / Nick Wilding.
Author
ISBN
9780226167022 (electronic bk.)
022616702X (electronic bk.)
9780226166971 (print)
022616702X (electronic bk.)
9780226166971 (print)
Published
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Call Number
Q143.S17 W55 2014eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)894668698
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.
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'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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The generation and dissolution of images
Becoming a "great magneticall man"
Drawing weapons
Interceptions
Interconnections
Transalpine messengers
Masks
Conclusion: science, intercepted.
Becoming a "great magneticall man"
Drawing weapons
Interceptions
Interconnections
Transalpine messengers
Masks
Conclusion: science, intercepted.
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Print version record.
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Print version: Wilding, Nick. Galileo's idol
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