Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism by Mario Biagioli

Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism

Mario Biagioli

416 pages paperback 1993

2 editions

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced
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Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, "Galileo, Courtier" is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his...

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