Galileo''s Idol - Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge

Offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). The author uses as wide a variety of sources as possible - paintings, ornamental woodcuts, epistolary hoaxes, intercepted letters, murder case files, and others - to challenge the picture of early modern science as pious, serious, and ecumenical.

About the author

Nick Wilding is assistant professor in the Department of History at Georgia State University.

Summary

Offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). The author uses as wide a variety of sources as possible - paintings, ornamental woodcuts, epistolary hoaxes, intercepted letters, murder case files, and others - to challenge the picture of early modern science as pious, serious, and ecumenical.

Product details

• Authors: Nick Wilding, Wilding Nick
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2014
• EAN: 9780226166971
• ISBN: 978-0-226-16697-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Europe, SCIENCE / History, History of Science, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, C 1600 To C 1700