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Galileo's Instruments of Credit : Telescopes, Images, Secrecy by Biagioli, Mario is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Galileo's Instruments of Credit : Telescopes, Images, Secrecy about?
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 a
Who reads Galileo's Instruments of Credit : Telescopes, Images, Secrecy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Biagioli, Mario
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226045610
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Italy, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24