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Eileen Reeves, Eileen Adair Reeves

Evening News - Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe

English · Hardback

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Eileen Reeves is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and author of Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror.

About the author

Eileen Reeves

Summary

Eileen Reeves examines the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly newsheets, the invention of the Dutch telescope, and the appearance of Galileo Galilei's astronomical treatise, The Starry Messenger.

Product details

Authors	Eileen Reeves, Eileen Adair Reeves
Publisher	University of pennsylvania pr

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	12.05.2014

EAN	9780812245745
ISBN	978-0-8122-4574-5
No. of pages	320
Dimensions	170 mm x 237 mm x 30 mm
Series	Material Texts Material Texts
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > History Non-fiction book

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