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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/894668698 Title: Galileo's idol : Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the politics of knowledge Author: Nick Wilding Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014. ©2014 ISBN/ISSN: 9780226167022 022616702X OCLC:894668698

  
  

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Galileo's idol : Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the politics of knowledge

Author:	Nick Wilding
Publisher:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014. ©2014
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	'Galileo's Idol' is a historical case-study of the use of information in the making of early modern scientific knowledge. It studies the relationship between natural philosophical and political practices in the Venetian Mediterranean at the start of the seventeenth century. Using the figure of Galileo's closest friend and confidant, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620), it shows how techniques of political information exchange were appropriated by early practitioners of the new science.  Read more...
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Subjects	Sagredo, Gianfrancesco, -- 1571-1620. Galilei, Galileo, -- 1564-1642. Science -- Biography. View all subjects
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