Galileo's Instruments of Credit [Elektronisk resurs] Telescopes, Images, Secrecy.

• Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; From Brass Instruments to Textual Supplements; Financing the Aura; Replication or Monopoly?; Between Risk and Credit; The Supplemental Economy of Galileo's Book of Nature; Unintended Differences; Acknowledgments; References; Index. 

• 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 a 

Ämnesord

Discoveries in science. 

Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Criticism and interpretation. 

Research -- Moral and ethical aspects. 

Scientific apparatus and instruments -- History. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

Q180.55 .M67 B53 2009 (LCC)

Q180.55.M67B53 2006 (LCC)

520 (DDC)

Ua (kssb/8 (machine generated))