Galileo’s Instruments of Credit
Telescopes, Images, Secrecy
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Introduction. From Brass Instruments to Textual Supplements
1. Financing the Aura: Distance and the Construction of Scientific Authority
2. Replication or Monopoly?: The Medicean Stars between Invention and Discovery
3. Between Risk and Credit: Picturing Objects in the Making
4. The Supplemental Economy of Galileo’s Book of Nature
Epilogue. Unintended Differences
Acknowledgments
References
Index
History: European History
Physical Sciences: History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
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