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

Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy

Mario Biagioli

316 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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