A Galileo forgery : Volume III Unmasking the New York Sidereus Nuncius / edited by Horst Bredekamp, Irene Brückle and Paul Needham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bredekamp, Horst, 1947- Editor.

Brückle, Irene, editor.

Needham, Paul, 1943- editor.

Series:

Galileo's O ; v. 3.

Galileo's O ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Sidereus nuncius.

Galilei, Galileo.

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642--Forgeries.

Printing--Italy--Venice--History--17th century.

Printing.

Printing--Italy--Venice--Specimens.

Rare books--Forgeries.

Rare books.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Jupiter (Planet)--Satellites--Early works to 1800.

Jupiter (Planet).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 pages) : color illustrations, photographs, facsimiles

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Forgery : unmasking the New York Sidereus nuncius

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Galileo's O, Band III, ist in der Buchgeschichte ohne Vorbild. Ein Kreis von Spezialisten der Kunst-, Buch-, Wissenschafts-, Material- und Restaurierungsgeschichte korrigiert in diesem Werk die eigenen Ergebnisse der ersten beiden Bände. In deren Zentrum stand das New Yorker Exemplar von Galileis "Sternenboten" (Sidereus Nuncius) von 1610. Die Analyse war als Beispiel einer umfassenden Kooperation gedacht, und zahlreiche Ergebnisse sind nach wie vor gültig, doch das zentrale Objekt hat sich als Produkt einer internationalen Gruppe von Fälschern erwiesen. Indem Band III die Chronologie und die Methoden dieser Entdeckung beschreibt, könnte er eine Art Wasserscheide im andauernden Wettstreit zwischen den immer feineren Methoden von Fälschern und den neuen Methoden darstellen, ihnen auf die Spur zu kommen. Das Buch ist schließlich auch ein Psychogramm von Spezialisten, die gleichsam gegen sich selbst forschen, um vergleichbare Irrtümer in Zukunft zu vermeiden.

Galileo's O, Volume III, is perhaps without peer in the history of the book. In this work, historians in various fields revise the results they presented in the first two volumes, which focused on the New York copy of Sidereus Nuncius, written in 1610. The analysis of this book was conceived as a uniquely multidisciplinary and cooperative undertaking, and many of its findings remain valid. Yet the subject of analysis proved to be the work of an international group of forgers. Volume III describes the chronology and methods by which the discovery of forgery was made - a veritable watershed moment in the continuing struggle between the ever-more refined methods of forgers and new methods used to apprehend them. Ultimately, the work also provides insight into the psychology of specialists who "research themselves" in order to prevent similar errors in the future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Bredekamp, Horst / Brückle, Irene / Hahn, Oliver / Mayer, Manfred / Needham, Paul / Pickwoad, Nicholas / Smith, Theresa

I Fruitful Doubts, May-June 2012 / Needham, Paul

II The Evidence of the Forged Printing / Needham, Paul

III The Evidence of the Forged Paper / Brückle, Irene / Smith, Theresa / Mayer, Manfred

IV The Evidence of the Forged SNML Sammelband Book Structure / Pickwoad, Nicholas

V The Evidence of the Forged Padua Compasso Book Structure / Brückle, Irene / Mayer, Manfred

VI Results of non-destructive Instrumental Analysis. XRF-, FTIR-Spectroscopy and Microscopy / Hahn, Oliver

VII Towards a Psychology of the Forger / Bredekamp, Horst

VIII Final Thoughts / Needham, Paul / Brückle, Irene / Bredekamp, Horst

Photo Credits

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9783110374704

3110374706

9783110354782

3110354780

OCLC:

951149574

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access