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Galileo's Idol : Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge / Nick Wilding.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilding, Nick, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sagredo, Gianfrancesco, 1571-1620.
- Sagredo, Gianfrancesco.
- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
- Galilei, Galileo.
- Science--Biography.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (211 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). Sagredo's life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, distribution, and reception of political information and scientific knowledge. Nick Wilding uses as wide a variety of sources as possible-paintings, ornamental woodcuts, epistolary hoaxes, intercepted letters, murder case files, and others-to challenge the picture of early modern science as pious, serious, and ecumenical. Through his analysis of the figure of Sagredo, Wilding offers a fresh perspective on Galileo as well as new questions and techniques for the study of science. The result is a book that turns our attention from actors as individuals to shifting collective subjects, often operating under false identities; from a world made of sturdy print to one of frail instruments and mistranscribed manuscripts; from a complacent Europe to an emerging system of complex geopolitics and globalizing information systems; and from an epistemology based on the stolid problem of eternal truths to one generated through and in the service of playful, politically engaged, and cunning schemes.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Generation and Dissolution of Images
- 2. Becoming a "Great Magneticall Man"
- 3. Drawing Weapons
- 4. Interceptions
- 5. Interconnections
- 6. Transalpine Messengers
- 7. Masks
- Conclusion: Science, Intercepted
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780226167022
- 022616702X
- OCLC:
- 894668698
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