Book ID: CBB000641593

Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy (2006)

unapi

Biagioli, Mario (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: 302 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Essay Review Franco Giudice (2007) Only a Matter of Credit? Galileo, the Telescopic Discoveries, and the Copernican System. Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies (pp. 391-413). unapi

Review Findlen, Paula E. (2006) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". Science (p. 46). unapi

Review Long, Pamela O. (2007) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". American Historical Review (p. 947). unapi

Review Reeves, Eileen (2007) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 179). unapi

Review Boschiero, Luciano (2007) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 93). unapi

Review Sharratt, Michael (2007) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 382). unapi

Review Laird, Walter Roy (2008) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". Historian: Journal of History (p. 365). unapi

Review Finocchiaro, Maurice A. (2006) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. unapi

Review Shea, William (2007) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 601). unapi

Review Wilding, Nick (2007) Review of "Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy". Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (p. 165). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Zik, Yaakov
Van Helden, Albert
Reeves, Eileen A.
Wolf, Edward D.
English, Neil
Zuidervaart, Huibert Jan
Concepts
Telescopes
Astronomy
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Observation
Optics
Patronage
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
16th century
Places
Italy
England
Netherlands
Institutions
Leiden Observatory
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Hubble Space Telescope
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