Galileo's Instruments of Credit : Telescopes, Images, Secrecy - Mario Biagioli

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Galileo's Instruments of Credit

Telescopes, Images, Secrecy

By: Mario Biagioli

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Paperback | 22 June 2007 | Edition Number 1

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In six short years, Galileo Galilei went from being a somewhat obscure mathematics professor running a student boarding house in Padua to a star in the court of Florence to the recipient of dangerous attention from the Inquisition for his support of Copernicanism. In that brief period, Galileo made a series of astronomical discoveries that reshaped the debate over the physical nature of the heavens: he deeply modified the practices and status of astronomy with the introduction of the telescope and pictorial evidence, proposed a radical reconfiguration of the relationship between theology and astronomy, and transformed himself from university mathematician into court philosopher.

Galileo's Instruments of Credit proposes radical new interpretations of several key episodes of Galileo's career, including his early telescopic discoveries of 1610, the dispute over sunspots, and the conflict with the Holy Office over the relationship between Copernicanism and Scripture. Galileo's tactics during this time shifted as rapidly as his circumstances, argues Mario Biagioli, and the pace of these changes forced him to respond swiftly to the opportunities and risks posed by unforeseen inventions, further discoveries, and the interventions of his opponents.

Focusing on the aspects of Galileo's scientific life that extend beyond the framework of court culture and patronage, Biagioli offers a revisionist account of the different systems of exchanges, communication, and credibility at work in various phases of Galileo's career. Galileo's Instruments of Credit will find grateful readers among scholars of science studies, historical epistemology, visual studies, Galilean science, and late Renaissance astronomy.

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"Biagioli reinterprets key episodes of Galileo's career and shows how his tactics rapidly shifted to match his changing circumstances. His study presents a fresh and interesting view of the challenges faced by the seventeenth-century scientist." - Antony Anderson, New Scientist"

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European History

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction: From Brass Instruments to Textual Supplements	p. 1
Financing the Aura	p. 21
Distance and the Construction of Scientific Authority
Replication or Monopoly?	p. 77
The Medicean Stars between Invention and Discovery
Between Risk and Credit	p. 135
Picturing Objects in the Making
The Supplemental Economy of Galileo's Book of Nature	p. 219
Epilogue: Unintended Differences	p. 261
Acknowledgments	p. 269
References	p. 271
Index	p. 285
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