Galileo, Courtier
The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism
Cloth $51.00
ISBN: 9780226045597
Published September 1993
Paper $21.00
ISBN: 9780226045603
Published November 1994
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Court Culture and the Legitimation of Science
1: Galileo's Self-fashioning
2: Discoveries and Etiquette
3: Anatomy of a Court Dispute
4: The Anthropology of Incommensurability
Intermezzo: Roma Theatrum Mundi
5: Courtly Comets
6: Framing Galileo's Trial
Epilogue: From Patronage to Academies: A Hypothesis
References
Index
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