Galileo's instruments of credit [electronic resource] : telescopes, images, secrecy / Mario Biagioli.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: 302 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 520/.92 B 22
- Q180.55.M67 B53 2006eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-284) and index.
From brass instruments to textual supplements -- Financing the aura: distance and the construction of scientific authority -- Replication or monopoly?: the Medicean stars between invention and discovery -- Between risk and credit: picturing objects in the making -- The supplemental economy of Galileo's book of nature -- Unintended differences.
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